Smart push over HTTP: client side

The git-remote-curl backend detects if the remote server supports
the git-receive-pack service, and if so, runs git-send-pack in a
pipe to dump the command and pack data as a single POST request.

The advertisements from the server that were obtained during the
discovery are passed into git-send-pack before the POST request
starts.  This permits git-send-pack to operate largely unmodified.

For smaller packs (those under 1 MiB) a HTTP/1.0 POST with a
Content-Length is used, permitting interaction with any server.
The 1 MiB limit is arbitrary, but is sufficent to fit most deltas
created by human authors against text sources with the occasional
small binary file (e.g. few KiB icon image).  The configuration
option http.postBuffer can be used to increase (or shink) this
buffer if the default is not sufficient.

For larger packs which cannot be spooled entirely into the helper's
memory space (due to http.postBuffer being too small), the POST
request requires HTTP/1.1 and sets "Transfer-Encoding: chunked".
This permits the client to upload an unknown amount of data in one
HTTP transaction without needing to pregenerate the entire pack
file locally.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
CC: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
index 4c4e99c2f..f828e1d80 100644
--- a/http.h
+++ b/http.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ extern curlioerr ioctl_buffer(CURL *handle, int cmd, void *clientp);
 extern struct active_request_slot *get_active_slot(void);
 extern int start_active_slot(struct active_request_slot *slot);
 extern void run_active_slot(struct active_request_slot *slot);
+extern void finish_active_slot(struct active_request_slot *slot);
 extern void finish_all_active_slots(void);
 extern void release_active_slot(struct active_request_slot *slot);
 
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ extern void http_cleanup(void);
 extern int data_received;
 extern int active_requests;
 extern int http_is_verbose;
+extern size_t http_post_buffer;
 
 extern char curl_errorstr[CURL_ERROR_SIZE];