When running checkout, first prefetch all blobs that are to be updated
but are missing. This means that only one pack is downloaded during such
operations, instead of one per missing blob.
This operates only on the blob level - if a repository has a missing
tree, they are still fetched one at a time.
This does not use the delayed checkout mechanism introduced in commit
2841e8f ("convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol",
2017-06-30) due to significant conceptual differences - in particular,
for partial clones, we already know what needs to be fetched based on
the contents of the local repo alone, whereas for status=delayed, it is
the filter process that tells us what needs to be checked in the end.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce fetch-object, providing the ability to fetch one object from a
promisor remote.
This uses fetch-pack. To do this, the transport mechanism has been
updated with 2 flags, "from-promisor" to indicate that the resulting
pack comes from a promisor remote (and thus should be annotated as such
by index-pack), and "no-dependents" to indicate that only the objects
themselves need to be fetched (but fetching additional objects is
nevertheless safe).
Whenever "no-dependents" is used, fetch-pack will refrain from using any
object flags, because it is most likely invoked as part of a dynamic
object fetch by another Git command (which may itself use object flags).
An alternative to this is to leave fetch-pack alone, and instead update
the allocation of flags so that fetch-pack's flags never overlap with
any others, but this will end up shrinking the number of flags available
to nearly every other Git command (that is, every Git command that
accesses objects), so the approach in this commit was used instead.
This will be tested in a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
