[PATCHv4 04/10] receive-pack: Prepare for addition of the new 'limit-*' family of capabilities

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

This adds some technical documentation on the 'limit-*' family of
capabilities that will be added in the following commits.

Also refactor the generation of the capabilities declaration in receive-pack.
This will also be further expanded in the following commits.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
---
 Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt         |    6 ++--
 Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt |   22 +++++++++++++++++++++
 builtin/receive-pack.c                            |   16 +++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index 4a68f0f..ddc0d0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ MUST peel the ref if it's an annotated tag.
   other-peeled     =  obj-id SP refname "^{}" LF
 
   capability-list  =  capability *(SP capability)
-  capability       =  1*(LC_ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "_")
+  capability       =  1*(LC_ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "_" / "=")
   LC_ALPHA         =  %x61-7A
 ----
 
@@ -391,8 +391,8 @@ The reference discovery phase is done nearly the same way as it is in the
 fetching protocol. Each reference obj-id and name on the server is sent
 in packet-line format to the client, followed by a flush-pkt.  The only
 real difference is that the capability listing is different - the only
-possible values are 'report-status', 'delete-refs', 'side-band-64k' and
-'ofs-delta'.
+possible values are 'report-status', 'delete-refs', 'side-band-64k',
+'ofs-delta' and 'limit-*'.
 
 Reference Update Request and Packfile Transfer
 ----------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
index b732e80..11849a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand.
 The 'report-status' and 'delete-refs' capabilities are sent and
 recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) process.
 
+Any 'limit-*' capabilities may only be sent by the receive-pack
+process. It is never requested by client.
+
 The 'side-band-64k' and 'ofs-delta' capabilities are sent and
 recognized by both upload-pack and receive-pack protocols.
 
@@ -185,3 +188,22 @@ it is capable of accepting a zero-id value as the target
 value of a reference update.  It is not sent back by the client, it
 simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values
 to delete references.
+
+limit-*
+-------
+
+If the server sends one or more capabilities that start with "limit-",
+it means that there are certain limits to what kind of pack the server
+will receive. More specifically, these capabilities must be of the form
+"limit-<what>=<num>" where "<what>" (a sequence of lower-case letters,
+digits and "-") describes which property of the pack is limited, and
+"<num>" (a sequence of decimal digits) specifies the limit value.
+Capabilities of this type are not sent back by the client; instead the
+client must verify that the created packfile does not exceed the given
+limits. This check should happen prior to transferring the packfile to
+the server. If the check fails, the client must abort the upload, and
+report the reason for the aborted push back to the user.
+The following "limit-*" capabilites are recognized:
+
+More "limit-*" capabilities may be added in the future. The client
+is free to ignore any "limit-*" capabilities it does not understand.
diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
index e1ba4dc..c55989d 100644
--- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
@@ -106,15 +106,23 @@ static int receive_pack_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
 }
 
+static const char *capabilities()
+{
+	static char buf[1024];
+	int ret = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf),
+			   " report-status delete-refs side-band-64k%s",
+			   prefer_ofs_delta ? " ofs-delta" : "");
+	assert(ret < sizeof(buf));
+	return buf;
+}
+
 static int show_ref(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void *cb_data)
 {
 	if (sent_capabilities)
 		packet_write(1, "%s %s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1), path);
 	else
-		packet_write(1, "%s %s%c%s%s\n",
-			     sha1_to_hex(sha1), path, 0,
-			     " report-status delete-refs side-band-64k",
-			     prefer_ofs_delta ? " ofs-delta" : "");
+		packet_write(1, "%s %s%c%s\n",
+			     sha1_to_hex(sha1), path, 0, capabilities());
 	sent_capabilities = 1;
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.5.rc1.3.g4d7b