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author | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2020-03-05 21:08:13 +0000 |
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committer | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2020-03-05 21:08:13 +0000 |
commit | d3c29eae5c389e36d4751539fad0462053fb2b20 (patch) | |
tree | cc3ae497193f9334d0bc6ee4224637102f6e0d4e /lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb | |
parent | ad4dbe36445360521fc73a57df13bc8f12eeaa92 (diff) | |
download | gitlab-ce-d3c29eae5c389e36d4751539fad0462053fb2b20.tar.gz |
Add latest changes from gitlab-org/gitlab@master
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diff --git a/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb b/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb index 4eb1ccf32ba..4b5455c0ec9 100644 --- a/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb +++ b/lib/gitlab/gitaly_client.rb @@ -141,6 +141,20 @@ module Gitlab # kwargs.merge(deadline: Time.now + 10) # end # + # The optional remote_storage keyword argument is used to enable + # inter-gitaly calls. Say you have an RPC that needs to pull data from + # one repository to another. For example, to fetch a branch from a + # (non-deduplicated) fork into the fork parent. In that case you would + # send an RPC call to the Gitaly server hosting the fork parent, and in + # the request, you would tell that Gitaly server to pull Git data from + # the fork. How does that Gitaly server connect to the Gitaly server the + # forked repo lives on? This is the problem `remote_storage:` solves: it + # adds address and authentication information to the call, as gRPC + # metadata (under the `gitaly-servers` header). The request would say + # "pull from repo X on gitaly-2". In the Ruby code you pass + # `remote_storage: 'gitaly-2'`. And then the metadata would say + # "gitaly-2 is at network address tcp://10.0.1.2:8075". + # def self.call(storage, service, rpc, request, remote_storage: nil, timeout: default_timeout, &block) self.measure_timings(service, rpc, request) do self.execute(storage, service, rpc, request, remote_storage: remote_storage, timeout: timeout, &block) |