Change check_ref_format() to take a flags argument that indicates what
is acceptable in the reference name (analogous to "git
check-ref-format"'s "--allow-onelevel" and "--refspec-pattern").  This
is more convenient for callers and also fixes a failure in the test
suite (and likely elsewhere in the code) by enabling "onelevel" and
"refspec-pattern" to be allowed independently of each other.

Also rename check_ref_format() to check_refname_format() to make it
obvious that it deals with refnames rather than references themselves.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Also add check_output from python 2.7.

Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

If fast-export did not complete successfully the error handling code
itself would error out.

This was broken in commit 23b093ee0 (Brandon Casey, Wed Jun 9 2010,
Remove python 2.5'isms). Revert that commit an introduce our own copy
of check_call in util.py instead.

Tested by changing 'if retcode' to 'if not retcode' temporarily.

Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When a remote helper exports to a non-local git repo, the
steps are roughly:

  1. fast-export into a local staging area; the set of
     interesting refs is defined by what is in the fast-export
     stream

  2. git push from the staging area to the non-local repo

In the second step, we should explicitly push all refs, not
just matching ones. This will let us push refs that do not
yet exist in the remote repo.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Upon receiving an "import" command, the testgit remote
helper would ignore the ref asked for by git and generate a
fast-export stream based on HEAD. Instead, we should
actually give git the ref it asked for.

This requires adding a new parameter to the export_repo
method in the remote-helpers python library, which may be
used by code outside of git.git. We use a default parameter
so that callers without the new parameter will get the same
behavior as before.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The build directory which is used by distutils depends on the platform
(e.g. build/lib on Fedora 13, build/lib.linux-i686-2.6 on Ubuntu 9.04).
But test-lib.sh expects to find the build in build/lib which can cause
t5800-remote-helpers.sh to fail early.

Override distutils' choice so that the build is always in build/lib.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The following python 2.5 features were worked around:

    * the sha module is used as a fallback when the hashlib module is
      not available
    * the 'any' built-in method was replaced with a 'for' loop
    * a conditional expression was replaced with an 'if' statement
    * the subprocess.check_call method was replaced by a call to
      subprocess.Popen followed by a call to subprocess.wait with a
      check of its return status

These changes allow the python infrastructure to be used with python 2.4
which is distributed with RedHat's RHEL 5, for example.

t5800 was updated to check for python >= 2.4 to reflect these changes.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

* sr/remote-helper-export:
  t5800: testgit helper requires Python support
  Makefile: Simplify handling of python scripts
  remote-helpers: add tests for testgit helper
  remote-helpers: add testgit helper
  remote-helpers: add support for an export command
  remote-helpers: allow requesing the path to the .git directory
  fast-import: always create marks_file directories
  clone: also configure url for bare clones
  clone: pass the remote name to remote_get

Conflicts:
	Makefile

Currently the remote helper infrastructure is only used by the curl
helper, which does not give a good impression of how remote helpers
can be used to interact with foreign repositories. Since implementing
such a helper is non-trivial it would be good to have at least one
easy-to-follow example demonstrating how to implement a helper that
interacts with a foreign vcs using fast-import/fast-export.

The testgit helper can be used to interact with remote git
repositories by prefixing the url with "testgit::".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

On FreeBSD, Python does not ship as part of the base system but is available
via the ports system, which install the binary in /usr/local/bin.

Signed-off-by: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@monkeypox.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>