Add Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt with details of the planned
commit graph feature, including future plans.

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

Add document specifying the binary format for commit graphs. This
format allows for:

* New versions.
* New hash functions and hash lengths.
* Optional extensions.

Basic header information is followed by a binary table of contents
into "chunks" that include:

* An ordered list of commit object IDs.
* A 256-entry fanout into that list of OIDs.
* A list of metadata for the commits.
* A list of "large edges" to enable octopus merges.

The format automatically includes two parent positions for every
commit. This favors speed over space, since using only one position
per commit would cause an extra level of indirection for every merge
commit. (Octopus merges suffer from this indirection, but they are
very rare.)

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

Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.

* po/object-id:
  sha1_file: rename hash_sha1_file_literally
  sha1_file: convert write_loose_object to object_id
  sha1_file: convert force_object_loose to object_id
  sha1_file: convert write_sha1_file to object_id
  notes: convert write_notes_tree to object_id
  notes: convert combine_notes_* to object_id
  commit: convert commit_tree* to object_id
  match-trees: convert splice_tree to object_id
  cache: clear whole hash buffer with oidclr
  sha1_file: convert hash_sha1_file to object_id
  dir: convert struct sha1_stat to use object_id
  sha1_file: convert pretend_sha1_file to object_id

Doc updates.

* jt/long-running-process-doc:
  Docs: split out long-running subprocess handshake

The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and
unpacking objects, have been told how to omit certain objects using
the filtering mechanism introduced by the jh/object-filtering
topic, and also mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to
tolerate missing objects, taking advantage of the mechanism
introduced by the jh/fsck-promisors topic.

* jh/partial-clone:
  t5616: test bulk prefetch after partial fetch
  fetch: inherit filter-spec from partial clone
  t5616: end-to-end tests for partial clone
  fetch-pack: restore save_commit_buffer after use
  unpack-trees: batch fetching of missing blobs
  clone: partial clone
  partial-clone: define partial clone settings in config
  fetch: support filters
  fetch: refactor calculation of remote list
  fetch-pack: test support excluding large blobs
  fetch-pack: add --no-filter
  fetch-pack, index-pack, transport: partial clone
  upload-pack: add object filtering for partial clone

In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery
for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been
taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a
packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that
promises to make them available on-demand and lazily.

* jh/fsck-promisors:
  gc: do not repack promisor packfiles
  rev-list: support termination at promisor objects
  sha1_file: support lazily fetching missing objects
  introduce fetch-object: fetch one promisor object
  index-pack: refactor writing of .keep files
  fsck: support promisor objects as CLI argument
  fsck: support referenced promisor objects
  fsck: support refs pointing to promisor objects
  fsck: introduce partialclone extension
  extension.partialclone: introduce partial clone extension

Convert the declaration and definition of pretend_sha1_file to use
struct object_id and adjust all usages of this function.  Rename it to
pretend_object_file.

Signed-off-by: Patryk Obara <patryk.obara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Separating out the implementation of the handshake when starting a
long-running subprocess (for example, as is done for a clean/smudge
filter) was done in commit fa64a2fdbeed ("sub-process: refactor
handshake to common function", 2017-07-26), but its documentation still
resides in gitattributes. Split out the documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* jh/partial-clone-doc:
  partial-clone: design doc

Design document for partial clone feature.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>