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help: internals topic for wire protocol

The Mercurial wire protocol is under-documented. This includes a lack
of source docstrings and comments as well as pages on the official
wiki.

This patch adds the beginnings of "internals" documentation on the
wire protocol.

The documentation should have nearly complete coverage on the
lower-level parts of the protocol, such as the different transport
mechanims, how commands and arguments are sent, capabilities, and,
of course, the commands themselves.

As part of writing this documentation, I discovered a number of
deficiencies in the protocol and bugs in the implementation. I've
started sending patches for some of the issues. I hope to send a lot
more.

This patch starts with the scaffolding for a new internals page.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright 2005-2007 by Intevation GmbH <[e-mail]>
#
# Author(s):
# Thomas Arendsen Hein <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

"""
hg-ssh - a wrapper for ssh access to a limited set of mercurial repos

To be used in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with the "command" option, see sshd(8):
command="hg-ssh path/to/repo1 /path/to/repo2 ~/repo3 ~user/repo4" ssh-dss ...
(probably together with these other useful options:
 no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding)

This allows pull/push over ssh from/to the repositories given as arguments.

If all your repositories are subdirectories of a common directory, you can
allow shorter paths with:
command="cd path/to/my/repositories && hg-ssh repo1 subdir/repo2"

You can use pattern matching of your normal shell, e.g.:
command="cd repos && hg-ssh user/thomas/* projects/{mercurial,foo}"

You can also add a --read-only flag to allow read-only access to a key, e.g.:
command="hg-ssh --read-only repos/*"
"""

# enable importing on demand to reduce startup time
from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()

from mercurial import dispatch

import sys, os, shlex

def main():
    cwd = os.getcwd()
    readonly = False
    args = sys.argv[1:]
    while len(args):
        if args[0] == '--read-only':
            readonly = True
            args.pop(0)
        else:
            break
    allowed_paths = [os.path.normpath(os.path.join(cwd,
                                                   os.path.expanduser(path)))
                     for path in args]
    orig_cmd = os.getenv('SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND', '?')
    try:
        cmdargv = shlex.split(orig_cmd)
    except ValueError as e:
        sys.stderr.write('Illegal command "%s": %s\n' % (orig_cmd, e))
        sys.exit(255)

    if cmdargv[:2] == ['hg', '-R'] and cmdargv[3:] == ['serve', '--stdio']:
        path = cmdargv[2]
        repo = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(cwd, os.path.expanduser(path)))
        if repo in allowed_paths:
            cmd = ['-R', repo, 'serve', '--stdio']
            if readonly:
                cmd += [
                    '--config',
                    'hooks.pretxnopen.hg-ssh=python:__main__.rejectpush',
                    '--config',
                    'hooks.prepushkey.hg-ssh=python:__main__.rejectpush'
                    ]
            dispatch.dispatch(dispatch.request(cmd))
        else:
            sys.stderr.write('Illegal repository "%s"\n' % repo)
            sys.exit(255)
    else:
        sys.stderr.write('Illegal command "%s"\n' % orig_cmd)
        sys.exit(255)

def rejectpush(ui, **kwargs):
    ui.warn(("Permission denied\n"))
    # mercurial hooks use unix process conventions for hook return values
    # so a truthy return means failure
    return True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()