It is desirable to keep the Git repositories in Radicle efficient by
ensuring objects are packed and unreachable objects are removed.
Add a process call to `git gc` to achieve this. Two flags are used for
garbage collection: `--auto` and `--prune`. Their details are outlined below:
--auto
With this option, git gc checks whether any housekeeping is
required; if not, it exits without performing any work.
--prune=<date>
Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks
ago, overridable by the config variable
gc.pruneExpire). --prune=now prunes loose objects
regardless of their age and increases the risk of
corruption if another process is writing to the repository
concurrently; see "NOTES" below. --prune is on by default.
For `--prune` the default used is `1.hours.ago`. This was chosen over
`now` since that may be too aggressive after just fetching new data.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Ref announcements contain the namespace (NID) and the SHA of the new
`rad/sigrefs`. This information can be used by the fetch protocol to
fetch only those `Oid`s for those namespaces.
Add a new stage `SigrefsAnnouncement` that captures this behaviour by
only asking for the advertised `Oid`s and updating the corresponding
`rad/sigrefs` for each namespace. Note that this is a special case of
the `SpecialRefs` stage and so the protocol chooses between these two
by checking if there was announcement passed through. The following
stage, `DataRefs`, stays the same.
Note that this stage can only be activated via a `pull`, and `clone`
stays the same.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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When performing a clone there are two potential issues.
The existing issue is that when a repository is created to clone into,
it does not contain any data initially. This leaves other node
operations thinking that a repository does exist but when they try to
perform operations on it, those will fail. These will be surfaced as
warnings but the node will continue to operate.
The other issue, while writing fetch v2, is that if a clone fails,
then cleanup needs to be performed -- to remove the empty repository
from storage.
To tackle both these issues, a temporary directory is used in the
place of the repository. If a clone fails then the temporary directory
is dropped and nothing needs to be done. If the clone succeeds then it
can be safely moved to the storage.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Wire up the `radicle-fetch` crate to the fetch logic in the
`radicle-node` worker.
Any required traits for storage, identity, tracking, and transport
used by `radicle-fetch`.
The worker adds a new module to run the `git upload-pack` process and
pipes the `stdout`/`stdin` to the respective channels.
The `Worker` type required adding a `FetchConfig` to easily allow the
configuration of fetches and passing the signer and tracking store
location through to the fetch `Handle`.
The channels code is adapted to have a new writer that always flushes
when a call to `write_all` is made. This is necessary since the
Gitoxide code never calls `flush`, and so it will hang since no data
is sent until `flush` is called.
Since `UserInfo` is used to set up a newly cloned repository, this
changed some of the SHA1 hashes output in the CLI test examples. It
was also necessary to update the CLI's clone code to be deterministic
in its output for tests.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Make the validation logic customisable by extracting it out into a
separate trait that can be defined by other crates.
The Repository validation logic stays the same.
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Instead of returning the unsigned references, the validation of a
repository's remotes returns the set of validation errors. The caller
is then expected to handle these validation errors appropriately, for
example, by logging them and re-raising an error.
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Introduces a new COB type to store repository identity documents.
The reason for this change is to:
1. Simplify the code, as the identity document logic resembled a COB,
yet it had custom logic. This allows existing COB code to be used for
identities.
2. Make identity document update logic more flexible, since COB actions
can be added in the future.
3. Re-purpose existing tools around COBs to work on identities, eg. `rad
cob`.
4. Unify the concept of an identity change proposal, with regular identity
changes. This means we can remove the `id.proposal` COB in favor of
using the `id` COB itself.
Notes
-----
* Each repository has one Identity COB.
* The `Proposal` COB has been repurposed into the `Identity` COB.
* Identity documents are stored as *embeds* inside the Identity COB
actions.
* The action that contains new document versions is called `revision`,
just like the Patches COB.
* The namespaced `rad/id` ref is a symbolic reference to that Identity
COB.
* The canonical `rad/id` ref is a direct reference to the commit in the
Identity COB that contains the latest *accepted* revision of the
document.
* All commands for managing identities have been folded into `rad id`.
Hence `rad delegate` and `rad edit` are removed.
* The concept of "rebasing" an identity document is gone.
* The `rad id` output has been updated to match the style of other
commands.
* When a revision has enough signatures, it is automatically adopted as
the current identity, there is no longer the need for a "commit"
action.
* When an identity revision is proposed, and the current identity has a
threshold of `1`, that identity is automatically accepted due to the
above point.
* The idea of "verifying a peer's identity branch" no longer applies, as
COBs cannot be verified one history at a time.
* Since the root commit of the Identity COB does not have a "Resource"
to point to (it would have to point to itself, which is impossible),
we've made the resource id optional for COBs.
For the purposes of debugging running nodes, it's useful to know which
threads are doing what. This allows tools like `htop` to reveal which
threads are running.
It turns out it's possible to create a deadlock when using
`child.wait()` with `Stdio::piped()`, if we don't read the output while
the child process is running. This is because the pipe has an internal
kernel buffer that will eventually fill up, causing the child process to
block on writing to stdout and never exit.
To remedy this situation, we read the stdout in a thread while the child
process is running.
This change updates to the latest radicle-git-ext, which required a
few changes within the radicle family of crates.
One set of changes is that the radicle-git-ext crate subsumes
git-commit, git-trailers, and git-ref-format -- so all those imports
go through radicle-git-ext.
The commit code requires that parent `Oid`s point to commits, which
made some tests fail. One of the reasons for these failures is that
the patch tests used fabricated `Oid`s and so the verification would
fail. This is fixed by allowing the test context code to create
`PatchRequest`s that create valid commits.
The other reason for failure was that the identity `Action` passed an
`Oid` that pointed to a blob. This is fixed by removing that code and
making a note of it in documentation.
The final major change was moving the Refspec type into git-ref-format
and removing the AsRefspecs trait. The trait was not required and
could its usage could be replaced by simpler code.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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We fix the failing fetch tests by:
1. Not verifying our own refs, unless we're cloning, since we're
otherwise not fetching our own refs.
2. Always force-fetching `sigrefs` from remotes into the staging copy.
3. Making sure that sigref updates are fast-forward before transfering
the remote into the production copy.
Ensure that the production repository is validated after fetching and
performing deletions. This is to highlight any inconsistencies that
may show up between fetching and deleting references.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Given the scenario of 3 peers, A, B, and C each having a project R. If
peer A has B's fork, but C does not, then when peer A attempts to
fetch from C the fetch will be rejected since Git will fail when a
refspec that is asked for does not exist on the remote side.
To avoid this, the fetch logic is changed so that the client first calls
ls-remote to the remote side, which results in the references that the
remote has which the client is interested in. The follow-up fetch then
uses these refs as the refspecs -- which should succeed unless there
was a race for a deletion on the remote side.
The rest of the verification logic stays the same, so the storage
should still be in a working state before transferring from the staged
repository to the production repository.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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It's currently possible for a channel to be blocked forever while
waiting for data, if the remote peer keeps the connection alive.
This can occupy a worker indefinitely.
With these timeouts, we ensure that workers exit if there is no
activity after a certain amount of time.
Instead of returning the namespaces that we fetched with,
we return the remotes that were actually fetched from.
This can differ if some trusted peers were not available
on the remote node.
Previously, if that was the case, it would cause errors
since the remotes were looked up and that lookup failed.
With this change, we not only verify the signed refs before
the repository "transfer", but also validate that all refs in the
repo are signed and there is no discrepancy with the signed refs
file.
Instead of parsing the worker requests and responses, which was causing issues
around packfile transmission, we use threads and pass the bytes
transparently.
Previously, during the "transfer" stage of a fetch, we used `force:
false`, which didn't allow refs to be force-updated.
This change makes it possible to fetch force-updated refs, but ensures
that the sigrefs branch is never force-updated.
To improve the reliability and flexibility of the protocol, we introduce
multiplexing over peer connections. This involves a new `Frame` type
that carries a stream-id and payload.
Three stream types are made available:
1. Control
2. Gossip
3. Git
This change brings the following improvements:
* Removed need to queue fetch requests
* Removed need to queue gossip messages
* Removed need for `Fetch` and `FetchOk` messages
* Service doesn't need to know about inbound fetches
* Removed one round-trip for fetch negotiation
* Removed special `done` git packet
* Removed session logic and state around Git/Fetch protocols
* Removed code around upgrading/downgrading transport
* Worker in responder mode is able to process any number of fetches
* Connections support any number of concurrent fetches
We had to introduce a few extra things however to make it all work:
* A `VarInt` type for variable-length integers, since we want the frames
to be lightweight.
* A custom "tunnel" implementation, since we couldn't use the existing
one anymore.
Overall the change removes more complexity than it adds, while improving
the protocol along the way.
The One variant caused many paint points for fetching logic, where it
was not necessary. It was only constructed in one place, which could
be replaced by using the variant that holds a set of keys.
Remove the Namespaces::One variant and rename Namespaces::Many to
Namespaces::Trusted.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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When a repository does not yet exist during a fetch, i.e. a clone,
then only delegates are being fetched.
Augment Namespaces::Many to hold the trusted and optional delegate peers
separately. Doing so allows the construction of the variant without
the repository existing, but tracking relationships existing.
This variant can then be used to build refspecs for both the trusted
peers and delegates when doing a cloning fetch.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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The previous fetching logic had some pitfalls regarding its logic:
* Fetched 'rad' references could end up not being verifiable and leaving
the storage in a corrupt state
* Forced pushes would be prohibited, since they would be rejected by
the client side due to the refspecs being used.
The new approach is to stage a fetch in 2 steps. The first step is to
fetch the relevant `rad/id` and `rad/sigrefs` for verification. For
all remotes that are verified, fetch all references listed in their
respective `rad/sigrefs`, using the `+` marker in the refspec,
allowing to update for any force pushes -- note that this becomes a
safe operation since the `sigrefs` are signed by the remote that
created them.
To prevent unverifiable 'rad' references from polluting storage, all
fetch negotiations are done in a staging repository set up in a
temporary directory. All successful fetches are then transferred,
using the 'file://' protocol, from the temporary directory into the
radicle storage.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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