Commit Briefs


Thomas Adam

introduce gotd(8), a Git repository server reachable via ssh(1)

This is an initial barebones implementation which provides the absolute minimum of functionality required to serve got(1) and git(1) clients. Basic fetch/send functionality has been tested and seems to work here, but this server is not yet expected to be stable. More testing is welcome. See the man pages for setup instructions. The current design uses one reader and one writer process per repository, which will have to be extended to N readers and N writers in the future. At startup, each process will chroot(2) into its assigned repository. This works because gotd(8) can only be started as root, and will then fork+exec, chroot, and privdrop. At present the parent process runs with the following pledge(2) promises: "stdio rpath wpath cpath proc getpw sendfd recvfd fattr flock unix unveil" The parent is the only process able to modify the repository in a way that becomes visible to Git clients. The parent uses unveil(2) to restrict its view of the filesystem to /tmp and the repositories listed in the configuration file gotd.conf(5). Per-repository chroot(2) processes use "stdio rpath sendfd recvfd". The writer defers to the parent for modifying references in the repository to point at newly uploaded commits. The reader is fine without such help, because Git repositories can be read without having to create any lock-files. gotd(8) requires a dedicated user ID, which should own repositories on the filesystem, and a separate secondary group, which should not have filesystem-level repository access, and must be allowed access to the gotd(8) socket. To obtain Git repository access, users must be members of this secondary group, and must have their login shell set to gotsh(1). gotsh(1) connects to the gotd(8) socket and speaks Git-protocol towards the client on the other end of the SSH connection. gotsh(1) is not an interactive command shell. At present, authenticated clients are granted read/write access to all repositories and all references (except for the "refs/got/" and the "refs/remotes/" namespaces, which are already being protected from modification). While complicated access control mechanism are not a design goal, making it possible to safely offer anonymous Git repository access over ssh(1) is on the road map.


Thomas Adam

let callers of got_pack_create() configure rate-limiting of progress reporting

Needed by future gotd(8), where progress reports will be sent to a network socket, rather than a local terminal.


Thomas Adam

move privsep code from pack_create.c into new file pack_create_privsep.c

Needed by future gotd(8). ok op@


Thomas Adam

move got_opentempfd() call out of got_pack_create()

Future gotd(8) needs to run got_pack_create() in a chroot environment, so we can no longer open new temporary files inside got_pack_create(). ok op@


Thomas Adam

make got_pack_create() write to a file descriptor instead of a stdio FILE

The old code required a seekable output file. This conflicts with requirements of future gotd(8), which will write pack file data to network sockets. ok op@



Thomas Adam

portable: remove imsg.h

Allow imsg.h to be checked for portably.


Thomas Adam

mark got_error_fmt as printf-like and fix the arisen errors

ok stsp@


Thomas Adam

portable: add back sys/queue.h

Now that the handling of including sys/queue.h is better, there's no need to remove those lines from the source. Copy the location of those original sys/queue.h lines from upstream at the same line number, so as to avoid any conflicts in the future.


Thomas Adam

implement support for commit coloring in got-read-pack for speed

ok op, tracey


Thomas Adam

build with -Wwrite-strings

Throwing this into the mix for a while, we can always get rid of it again if it becomes annoying. No objections from stsp@



Thomas Adam

build with -Wmissing-prototypes

ok stsp@


Thomas Adam

let got-read-pack be explicit about whether it could enumerate all objects

This allows the main process to avoid looping over all object IDs again in case the pack file used for enumeration is complete. ok op@



Thomas Adam

Bring back object enumeration inside got-read-pack as a fast path.

The problem that was found in the earlier version has been fixed. ok op@


Thomas Adam

portable: remove endian.h

This is included portably.


Thomas Adam

revert object enumeration in got-read-pack for now; needs more work

This implementation marked commits and trees as enumerated before all trees which they depend on were enumerated. This behaviour leads to incomplete pack files when a tree is only partially packed and got-read-pack hits a missing tree entry as a result. The algorithm must be reworked such that packed leave nodes are marked enumerated first, then bubble-up. Found by op@


Thomas Adam

free id and path in load_packed_tree_ids() on error, else they would leak

pointed out by op@


Thomas Adam

implement object enumeration support in got-read-pack

ok op@


Thomas Adam

map delta cache file into memory if possible while writing a pack file

with a fix from + ok op@


Thomas Adam

fix a bug in findwixt() which caused pack files with missing parent commits

The 'nskip' variable is supposed to reflect commits which are waiting on the queue and have the 'skip' color. Only increment 'nskip' when adding such commits to the queue. Problem observed with got send -T and a tag pointing to a deleted branch. Test to reproduce the bug written by op@.


Thomas Adam

use random seeds for murmurhash2

change the three hardcoded seeds to fresh ones generated on demand via arc4random. Suggested/fixed by and ok stsp@


Thomas Adam

include header