That's a bad assumption to make, even though right now it holds
(because of the way we've implemented decompression of packfiles),
this may change in the future, given that ODB objects can be
binary data.
Furthermore, the ODB object can return a NULL pointer if the object
is empty. Copying the NULL pointer to the strbuf lets us handle it
like an empty string. Again, the NULL pointer is valid behavior because
you're supposed to check the *size* of the object before working
on it.
This is a contract that we made in the library and that we need to uphold. The
contents of a blob can never be NULL because several parts of the library (including
the filter and attributes code) expect `git_blob_rawcontent` to always return a
valid pointer.
When we fetch twice with the same remote object, we did not properly
clear the connection flags, so we would leak state from the last
connection.
This can cause the second fetch with the same remote object to fail if
using a HTTP URL where the server redirects to HTTPS, as the second
fetch would see `use_ssl` set and think the initial connection wanted to
downgrade the connection.
When attempting to update a reference on a remote during push, and the
reference on the remote refers to a commit that does not exist locally,
then we should report a more clear error message.
When creating a new remote, contrary to loading one from disk,
active_refspecs was not populated. This means that if using the new
remote to push, git_push_update_tips() will be a no-op since it
checks the refspecs passed during the push against the base ones
i.e. active_refspecs. And therefore the local refs won't be created
or updated after the push operation.
There is one well-known and well-tested parser which we should use,
instead of implementing parsing a second time.
The common parser is also augmented to copy the LHS into the RHS if the
latter is empty.
The expressions test had to change a bit, as we now catch a bad RHS of a
refspec locally.
We have the step-by-step method in the initialization function as we
want to remove references based on the list of references which are
already there, and we can use the convenience function for testing the
main push.
This function, similar in style to git_remote_fetch(), performs all the
steps required for a push, with a similar interface.
The remote callbacks struct has learnt about the push callbacks, letting
us set the callbacks a single time instead of setting some in the remote
and some in the push operation.
This describes their purpose better, as we now initialize ssl and some
other global stuff in there. Calling the init function is not something
which has been optional for a while now.
