parseopt: group literal string alternatives in argument help
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1 #ifndef TRANSPORT_INTERNAL_H
2 #define TRANSPORT_INTERNAL_H
4 struct ref;
5 struct transport;
6 struct argv_array;
8 struct transport_vtable {
9 /**
10 * Returns 0 if successful, positive if the option is not
11 * recognized or is inapplicable, and negative if the option
12 * is applicable but the value is invalid.
13 **/
14 int (*set_option)(struct transport *connection, const char *name,
15 const char *value);
16 /**
17 * Returns a list of the remote side's refs. In order to allow
18 * the transport to try to share connections, for_push is a
19 * hint as to whether the ultimate operation is a push or a fetch.
21 * If communicating using protocol v2 a list of prefixes can be
22 * provided to be sent to the server to enable it to limit the ref
23 * advertisement. Since ref filtering is done on the server's end, and
24 * only when using protocol v2, this list will be ignored when not
25 * using protocol v2 meaning this function can return refs which don't
26 * match the provided ref_prefixes.
28 * If the transport is able to determine the remote hash for
29 * the ref without a huge amount of effort, it should store it
30 * in the ref's old_sha1 field; otherwise it should be all 0.
31 **/
32 struct ref *(*get_refs_list)(struct transport *transport, int for_push,
33 const struct argv_array *ref_prefixes);
35 /**
36 * Fetch the objects for the given refs. Note that this gets
37 * an array, and should ignore the list structure.
39 * If the transport did not get hashes for refs in
40 * get_refs_list(), it should set the old_sha1 fields in the
41 * provided refs now.
42 **/
43 int (*fetch)(struct transport *transport, int refs_nr, struct ref **refs);
45 /**
46 * Push the objects and refs. Send the necessary objects, and
47 * then, for any refs where peer_ref is set and
48 * peer_ref->new_oid is different from old_oid, tell the
49 * remote side to update each ref in the list from old_oid to
50 * peer_ref->new_oid.
52 * Where possible, set the status for each ref appropriately.
54 * The transport must modify new_sha1 in the ref to the new
55 * value if the remote accepted the change. Note that this
56 * could be a different value from peer_ref->new_oid if the
57 * process involved generating new commits.
58 **/
59 int (*push_refs)(struct transport *transport, struct ref *refs, int flags);
60 int (*connect)(struct transport *connection, const char *name,
61 const char *executable, int fd[2]);
63 /** get_refs_list(), fetch(), and push_refs() can keep
64 * resources (such as a connection) reserved for further
65 * use. disconnect() releases these resources.
66 **/
67 int (*disconnect)(struct transport *connection);
70 #endif