radicle-heartwood-lfs/radicle-node
Fintan Halpenny db0ceddf6b
node: multistep fetching logic
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>
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
2023-03-31 12:19:36 +01:00
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