upload-pack: document and rename --advertise-refs

avar · gitster · commit 98e2d9d6f7dc · 2021-08-05T08:59:37.000-07:00
The --advertise-refs documentation in git-upload-pack added in 9812f21 (upload-pack.c: use parse-options API, 2016-05-31) hasn't been entirely true ever since v2 support was implemented in e52449b (connect: request remote refs using v2, 2018-03-15). Under v2 we don't advertise the refs at all, but rather dump the capabilities header. This option has always been an obscure internal implementation detail, it wasn't even documented for git-receive-pack. Since it has exactly one user let's rename it to --http-backend-info-refs, which is more accurate and points the reader in the right direction. Let's also cross-link this from the protocol v1 and v2 documentation. I'm retaining a hidden --advertise-refs alias in case there's any external users of this, and making both options hidden to the bash completion (as with most other internal-only options). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ OPTIONS
 <directory>::
 	The repository to sync into.
 
+--http-backend-info-refs::
+	Used by linkgit:git-http-backend[1] to serve up
+	`$GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack` requests. See
+	`--http-backend-info-refs` in linkgit:git-upload-pack[1].
+
 PRE-RECEIVE HOOK
 ----------------
 Before any ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive file exists
diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt
@@ -36,10 +36,14 @@ OPTIONS
 	This fits with the HTTP POST request processing model where
 	a program may read the request, write a response, and must exit.
 
---advertise-refs::
-	Only the initial ref advertisement is output, and the program exits
-	immediately. This fits with the HTTP GET request model, where
-	no request content is received but a response must be produced.
+--http-backend-info-refs::
+	Used by linkgit:git-http-backend[1] to serve up
+	`$GIT_URL/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack` requests. See
+	"Smart Clients" in link:technical/http-protocol.html[the HTTP
+	transfer protocols] documentation and "HTTP Transport" in
+	link:technical/protocol-v2.html[the Git Wire Protocol, Version
+	2] documentation. Also understood by
+	linkgit:git-receive-pack[1].
 
 <directory>::
 	The repository to sync from.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt
@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ The client may send Extra Parameters (see
 Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt) as a colon-separated string
 in the Git-Protocol HTTP header.
 
+Uses the `--http-backend-info-refs` option to
+linkgit:git-upload-pack[1].
+
 Dumb Server Response
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Dumb servers MUST respond with the dumb server reply format.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ A v2 server would reply:
 Subsequent requests are then made directly to the service
 `$GIT_URL/git-upload-pack`. (This works the same for git-receive-pack).
 
+Uses the `--http-backend-info-refs` option to
+linkgit:git-upload-pack[1].
+
 Capability Advertisement
 ------------------------
 
diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
@@ -2477,7 +2477,8 @@ int cmd_receive_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct option options[] = {
 		OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("quiet")),
 		OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "stateless-rpc", &stateless_rpc, NULL),
-		OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "advertise-refs", &advertise_refs, NULL),
+		OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "http-backend-info-refs", &advertise_refs, NULL),
+		OPT_ALIAS(0, "advertise-refs", "http-backend-info-refs"),
 		OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "reject-thin-pack-for-testing", &reject_thin, NULL),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
diff --git a/builtin/upload-pack.c b/builtin/upload-pack.c
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ int cmd_upload_pack(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct option options[] = {
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "stateless-rpc", &stateless_rpc,
 			 N_("quit after a single request/response exchange")),
-		OPT_BOOL(0, "advertise-refs", &advertise_refs,
-			 N_("exit immediately after initial ref advertisement")),
+		OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "http-backend-info-refs", &advertise_refs,
+				N_("serve up the info/refs for git-http-backend")),
+		OPT_ALIAS(0, "advertise-refs", "http-backend-info-refs"),
 		OPT_BOOL(0, "strict", &strict,
 			 N_("do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is no Git directory")),
 		OPT_INTEGER(0, "timeout", &timeout,
diff --git a/http-backend.c b/http-backend.c
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ static void get_info_refs(struct strbuf *hdr, char *arg)
 
 	if (service_name) {
 		const char *argv[] = {NULL /* service name */,
-			"--advertise-refs",
+			"--http-backend-info-refs",
 			".", NULL};
 		struct rpc_service *svc = select_service(hdr, service_name);
 
diff --git a/t/t5555-http-smart-common.sh b/t/t5555-http-smart-common.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	test_commit --no-tag initial
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'git upload-pack --http-backend-info-refs and --advertise-refs are aliased' '
+	git upload-pack --http-backend-info-refs . >expected 2>err.expected &&
+	git upload-pack --advertise-refs . >actual 2>err.actual &&
+	test_cmp err.expected err.actual &&
+	test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'git receive-pack --http-backend-info-refs and --advertise-refs are aliased' '
+	git receive-pack --http-backend-info-refs . >expected 2>err.expected &&
+	git receive-pack --advertise-refs . >actual 2>err.actual &&
+	test_cmp err.expected err.actual &&
+	test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'git upload-pack --advertise-refs' '
 	cat >expect <<-EOF &&
 	$(git rev-parse HEAD) HEAD
