sub-process: refactor handshake to common functionjt/subprocess-handshake

Refactor, into a common function, the version and capability negotiation
done when invoking a long-running process as a clean or smudge filter.
This will be useful for other Git code that needs to interact similarly
with a long-running process.

As you can see in the change to t0021, this commit changes the error
message reported when the long-running process does not introduce itself
with the expected "server"-terminated line. Originally, the error
message reports that the filter "does not support filter protocol
version 2", differentiating between the old single-file filter protocol
and the new multi-file filter protocol - I have updated it to something
more generic and useful.

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

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sub-process.h b/sub-process.h
index e546216145..caa91a9b92 100644
--- a/sub-process.h
+++ b/sub-process.h
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ struct subprocess_entry {
 	struct child_process process;
 };
 
+struct subprocess_capability {
+	const char *name;
+
+	/*
+	 * subprocess_handshake will "|=" this value to supported_capabilities
+	 * if the server reports that it supports this capability.
+	 */
+	unsigned int flag;
+};
+
 /* subprocess functions */
 
 /* Function to test two subprocess hashmap entries for equality. */
@@ -63,6 +73,22 @@ static inline struct child_process *subprocess_get_child_process(
 }
 
 /*
+ * Perform the version and capability negotiation as described in the "Long
+ * Running Filter Process" section of the gitattributes documentation using the
+ * given requested versions and capabilities. The "versions" and "capabilities"
+ * parameters are arrays terminated by a 0 or blank struct.
+ *
+ * This function is typically called when a subprocess is started (as part of
+ * the "startfn" passed to subprocess_start).
+ */
+int subprocess_handshake(struct subprocess_entry *entry,
+			 const char *welcome_prefix,
+			 int *versions,
+			 int *chosen_version,
+			 struct subprocess_capability *capabilities,
+			 unsigned int *supported_capabilities);
+
+/*
  * Helper function that will read packets looking for "status=<foo>"
  * key/value pairs and return the value from the last "status" packet
  */