When given an ODB from which to read objects, the indexer will attempt
to inject the missing bases at the end of the pack and update the
header and trailer to reflect the new contents.
Though unusual, a packfile may contain a delta whose base is a delta
that comes later. In order index such a packfile, we must not give up
on the first failure to resolve a delta, but keep it around.
If there is a pass which makes no progress, this indicates that the
packfile is broken, so fail accordingly.
This adds the basics of progress reporting during push. While progress
for all aspects of a push operation are not reported with this change,
it lays the foundation to add these later. Push progress reporting
can be improved in the future - and consumers of the API should
just get more accurate information at that point.
The main areas where this is lacking are:
1) packbuilding progress: does not report progress during deltafication,
as this involves coordinating progress from multiple threads.
2) network progress: reports progress as objects and bytes are going
to be written to the subtransport (instead of as client gets
confirmation that they have been received by the server) and leaves
out some of the bytes that are transfered as part of the push protocol.
Basically, this reports the pack bytes that are written to the
subtransport. It does not report the bytes sent on the wire that
are received by the server. This should be a good estimate of
progress (and an improvement over no progress).
The error handling docs date back to the early error redesign
work and don't match up with the route we actually took. This
brings them in line with actual practice both for external users
and internal implementors, and notes some of the exceptions and
possible bugs.
The subtransport path was relying on pointing to data owned by
the remote which meant that after a redirect, the updated path
was getting lost for future requests. This updates the http
transport to strdup the path and maintain its own lifetime.
This also pulls responsibility for parsing the URL back into the
http transport and isolates the functions that parse and free that
connection data so that they can be reused between the initial
parsing and the redirect parsing.
