Add git-bundle: move objects and references by archive

Some workflows require use of repositories on machines that cannot be
connected, preventing use of git-fetch / git-push to transport objects and
references between the repositories.

git-bundle provides an alternate transport mechanism, effectively allowing
git-fetch and git-pull to operate using sneakernet transport. `git-bundle
create` allows the user to create a bundle containing one or more branches
or tags, but with specified basis assumed to exist on the target
repository. At the receiving end, git-bundle acts like git-fetch-pack,
allowing the user to invoke git-fetch or git-pull using the bundle file as
the URL. git-fetch and git-ls-remote determine they have a bundle URL by
checking that the URL points to a file, but are otherwise unchanged in
operation with bundles.

The original patch was done by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>.

It was updated to make git-bundle a builtin, and get rid of the tar
format: now, the first line is supposed to say "# v2 git bundle", the next
lines either contain a prerequisite ("-" followed by the hash of the
needed commit), or a ref (the hash of a commit, followed by the name of
the ref), and finally the pack. As a result, the bundle argument can be
"-" now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-fetch.sh b/git-fetch.sh
index ca984e739..d5b34bc0e 100755
--- a/git-fetch.sh
+++ b/git-fetch.sh
@@ -377,8 +377,15 @@ fetch_main () {
     ( : subshell because we muck with IFS
       IFS=" 	$LF"
       (
+	if test -f "$remote" ; then
+	    test -n "$shallow_depth" &&
+		die "shallow clone with bundle is not supported"
+	    git-bundle unbundle "$remote" $rref ||
+	    echo failed "$remote"
+	else
 	  git-fetch-pack --thin $exec $keep $shallow_depth "$remote" $rref ||
 	  echo failed "$remote"
+	fi
       ) |
       (
 	trap '