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Eric Ju 999bed85bd cat-file: add remote-object-info to batch-command
Since the `info` command in cat-file --batch-command prints object info
for a given object, it is natural to add another command in cat-file
--batch-command to print object info for a given object from a remote.
Add `remote-object-info` to cat-file --batch-command.

While `info` takes object ids one at a time, this creates overhead when
making requests to a server so `remote-object-info` instead can take
multiple object ids at once.

cat-file --batch-command is generally implemented in the following
manner:

 - Receive and parse input from user
 - Call respective function attached to command
 - Get object info, print object info

In --buffer mode, this changes to:

 - Receive and parse input from user
 - Store respective function attached to command in a queue
 - After flush, loop through commands in queue
    - Call respective function attached to command
    - Get object info, print object info

Notice how the getting and printing of object info is accomplished one
at a time. As described above, this creates a problem for making
requests to a server. Therefore, `remote-object-info` is implemented in
the following manner:

 - Receive and parse input from user
 If command is `remote-object-info`:
    - Get object info from remote
    - Loop through and print each object info
 Else:
    - Call respective function attached to command
    - Parse input, get object info, print object info

And finally for --buffer mode `remote-object-info`:
 - Receive and parse input from user
 - Store respective function attached to command in a queue
 - After flush, loop through commands in queue:
    If command is `remote-object-info`:
        - Get object info from remote
        - Loop through and print each object info
    Else:
        - Call respective function attached to command
        - Get object info, print object info

To summarize, `remote-object-info` gets object info from the remote and
then loop through the object info passed in, printing the info.

In order for remote-object-info to avoid remote communication overhead
in the non-buffer mode, the objects are passed in as such:

remote-object-info <remote> <oid> <oid> ... <oid>

rather than

remote-object-info <remote> <oid>
remote-object-info <remote> <oid>
...
remote-object-info <remote> <oid>

Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Helped-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Ju  <eric.peijian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-10-31 16:59:58 -04:00

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# Library of git-cat-file related tests.
# Print a string without a trailing newline
echo_without_newline () {
printf '%s' "$*"
}
# Print a string without newlines and replaces them with a NULL character (\0).
echo_without_newline_nul () {
echo_without_newline "$@" | tr '\n' '\0'
}
# Calculate the length of a string removing any leading spaces.
strlen () {
echo_without_newline "$1" | wc -c | sed -e 's/^ *//'
}