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Clients cache the set of advertised references at the start of a negotiation, and keep replaying the same "want SHA1" list to the server on each negotiation step. If another client pushes into a branch and moves it by fast-forward, any request to obtain that branch's prior SHA-1 is still valid, the commit is reachable from the new position of the reference. Unfortunately the fast-forward causes smart HTTP negotations to fail, as the server no longer is advertising that prior SHA-1. Instead of causing clients to fail out with a "want invalid" error and forcing the end-user retry, possibly getting into a never ending try-fail-retry race while other clients are pushing into the same busy repository, allow the slightly stale want request so long as it is still reachable. C Git implemented this same change recently to fix races on the smart HTTP protocol when the C Git git-http-backend is used. The new RequestPolicy feature also allows server authors to make an even more lenient configuration that exports any SHA-1 to the client. This might be useful in certain settings where a server has authenticated the client as the "repository owner" and wants to allow them to grab any content from the server as a complete unbroken history chain. The new setAdvertisedRefs() method allows server authors to manually fix the references that are advertised, possibly bypassing the getAllRefs() call on the Repository object. Change-Id: I7cdb563bf9c55c83653f217f6e53c3add55a0541 Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>stable-1.2
Shawn O. Pearce
14 years ago
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