Re: [PATCH] Get commits from remote repositories by HTTP

[tony.luck@intel.com]

> ...and this is precisely why ls-tree actually outputs those "blob" and
> "tree" tags. ;-)

Doh!

Here's a fresh copy with "if [ $tag = tree ]".  I just used it to pull
from Linus into an "empty" directory (just ran init-db to make the .git
.git/objects and .git/objects/xx directories).

-Tony


#!/bin/bash

# Copyright (C) 2005 Tony Luck

REMOTE=http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/

rm -rf .gittmp
# set up a temp git repository so that we can use cat-file and ls-tree on the
# objects we pull without installing them into our tree. This allows us to
# restart if the download is interrupted
mkdir .gittmp
cd .gittmp
init-db

wget -q $REMOTE/HEAD

if cmp -s ../.git/HEAD HEAD
then
	echo Already have HEAD = `cat ../.git/HEAD`
	cd ..
	rm -rf .gittmp
	exit 0
fi

sha1=`cat HEAD`
sha1file=${sha1:0:2}/${sha1:2}

if [ -f ../.git/objects/$sha1file ]
then
	echo Already have most recent commit. Update HEAD to $sha1
	cd ..
	rm -rf .gittmp
	exit 0
fi

wget -q $REMOTE/objects/$sha1file -O .git/objects/$sha1file

treesha1=`cat-file commit $sha1 | (read tag tree ; echo $tree)`

get_tree()
{
	treesha1file=${1:0:2}/${1:2}
	if [ -f ../.git/objects/$treesha1file ]
	then
		return
	fi
	wget -q $REMOTE/objects/$treesha1file -O .git/objects/$treesha1file
	ls-tree $1 | while read mode tag sha1 name
	do
		subsha1file=${sha1:0:2}/${sha1:2}
		if [  -f ../.git/objects/$subsha1file ]
		then
			continue
		fi
		if [ $tag = tree ]
		then
			get_tree $sha1 `expr $2 + 1`
		else
			echo objects/$subsha1file >> needbloblist
		fi
	done
}

# get all the tree objects to our .gittmp area, and create list of needed blobs
get_tree $treesha1

# now get the blobs
cd ../.git
if [ -s ../.gittmp/needbloblist ]
then
	wget -q -r -nH  --cut-dirs=6 --base=$REMOTE -i ../.gittmp/needbloblist
fi

# Now we have the blobs, move the trees and commit from .gitttmp
cd ../.gittmp/.git/objects
find ?? -type f -print | while read f
do
	mv $f ../../../.git/objects/$f
done

# update HEAD
cd ../..
mv HEAD ../.git

cd ..
rm -rf .gittmp