bundle-uri: parse bundle list in config format

When a bundle provider wants to operate independently from a Git remote,
they want to provide a single, consistent URI that users can use in
their 'git clone --bundle-uri' commands. At this point, the Git client
expects that URI to be a single bundle that can be unbundled and used to
bootstrap the rest of the clone from the Git server. This single bundle
cannot be re-used to assist with future incremental fetches.

To allow for the incremental fetch case, teach Git to understand a
bundle list that could be advertised at an independent bundle URI. Such
a bundle list is likely to be inspected by human readers, even if only
by the bundle provider creating the list. For this reason, we can take
our expected "key=value" pairs and instead format them using Git config
format.

Create bundle_uri_parse_config_format() to parse a file in config format
and convert that into a 'struct bundle_list' filled with its
understanding of the contents.

Be careful to use error_action CONFIG_ERROR_ERROR when calling
git_config_from_file_with_options() because the default action for
git_config_from_file() is to die() on a parsing error.  The current
warning isn't particularly helpful if it arises to a user, but it will
be made more verbose at a higher layer later.

Update 'test-tool bundle-uri' to take this config file format as input.
It uses a filename instead of stdin because there is no existing way to
parse a FILE pointer in the config machinery. Using
git_config_from_mem() is overly complicated and more likely to introduce
bugs than this simpler version.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bundle-uri.h b/bundle-uri.h
index 0e56ab2ae5..bc13d4c992 100644
--- a/bundle-uri.h
+++ b/bundle-uri.h
@@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ struct FILE;
 void print_bundle_list(FILE *fp, struct bundle_list *list);
 
 /**
+ * A bundle URI may point to a bundle list where the key=value
+ * pairs are provided in config file format. This method is
+ * exposed publicly for testing purposes.
+ */
+int bundle_uri_parse_config_format(const char *uri,
+				   const char *filename,
+				   struct bundle_list *list);
+
+/**
  * Fetch data from the given 'uri' and unbundle the bundle data found
  * based on that information.
  *