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Diffstat (limited to 'remote-curl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | remote-curl.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c index cae98384da..6008d7e87c 100644 --- a/remote-curl.c +++ b/remote-curl.c @@ -266,12 +266,23 @@ static struct ref *parse_git_refs(struct discovery *heads, int for_push) return list; } +/* + * Try to detect the hash algorithm used by the remote repository when using + * the dumb HTTP transport. As dumb transports cannot tell us the object hash + * directly have to derive it from the advertised ref lengths. + */ static const struct git_hash_algo *detect_hash_algo(struct discovery *heads) { const char *p = memchr(heads->buf, '\t', heads->len); int algo; + + /* + * In case the remote has no refs we have no way to reliably determine + * the object hash used by that repository. In that case we simply fall + * back to SHA1, which may or may not be correct. + */ if (!p) - return the_hash_algo; + return &hash_algos[GIT_HASH_SHA1]; algo = hash_algo_by_length((p - heads->buf) / 2); if (algo == GIT_HASH_UNKNOWN) @@ -295,6 +306,12 @@ static struct ref *parse_info_refs(struct discovery *heads) "is this a git repository?", transport_anonymize_url(url.buf)); + /* + * Set the repository's hash algo to whatever we have just detected. + * This ensures that we can correctly parse the remote references. + */ + repo_set_hash_algo(the_repository, hash_algo_by_ptr(options.hash_algo)); + data = heads->buf; start = NULL; mid = data; |