Allow unsupported multi_ack capability

Azure DevOps requires capabilities multi_ack / multi_ack_detailed,
which are not fully implemented and by default are included in
transport.UnsupportedCapabilities.

The initial clone operations require a full download of the repository,
and therefore those unsupported capabilities are not as crucial, so
by removing them from that list allows for the first clone to work
successfully.

Additional fetches will yield issues, therefore to support that
repository users have to work from a clean clone until those
capabilities are fully supported. Commits and pushes back into the
repository have also been tested and work fine.

This change adds an example for cloning Azure DevOps repositories.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Gomes <pjbgf@linux.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/plumbing/protocol/packp/srvresp.go b/plumbing/protocol/packp/srvresp.go
index b3a7ee8..8cd0a72 100644
--- a/plumbing/protocol/packp/srvresp.go
+++ b/plumbing/protocol/packp/srvresp.go
@@ -21,11 +21,6 @@ type ServerResponse struct {
 // Decode decodes the response into the struct, isMultiACK should be true, if
 // the request was done with multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed capabilities.
 func (r *ServerResponse) Decode(reader *bufio.Reader, isMultiACK bool) error {
-	// TODO: implement support for multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed responses
-	if isMultiACK {
-		return errors.New("multi_ack and multi_ack_detailed are not supported")
-	}
-
 	s := pktline.NewScanner(reader)
 
 	for s.Scan() {
@@ -48,7 +43,23 @@ func (r *ServerResponse) Decode(reader *bufio.Reader, isMultiACK bool) error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	return s.Err()
+	// isMultiACK is true when the remote server advertises the related
+	// capabilities when they are not in transport.UnsupportedCapabilities.
+	//
+	// Users may decide to remove multi_ack and multi_ack_detailed from the
+	// unsupported capabilities list, which allows them to do initial clones
+	// from Azure DevOps.
+	//
+	// Follow-up fetches may error, therefore errors are wrapped with additional
+	// information highlighting that this capabilities are not supported by go-git.
+	//
+	// TODO: Implement support for multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed responses.
+	err := s.Err()
+	if err != nil && isMultiACK {
+		return fmt.Errorf("multi_ack and multi_ack_detailed are not supported: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return err
 }
 
 // stopReading detects when a valid command such as ACK or NAK is found to be
@@ -113,8 +124,9 @@ func (r *ServerResponse) decodeACKLine(line []byte) error {
 }
 
 // Encode encodes the ServerResponse into a writer.
-func (r *ServerResponse) Encode(w io.Writer) error {
-	if len(r.ACKs) > 1 {
+func (r *ServerResponse) Encode(w io.Writer, isMultiACK bool) error {
+	if len(r.ACKs) > 1 && !isMultiACK {
+		// For further information, refer to comments in the Decode func above.
 		return errors.New("multi_ack and multi_ack_detailed are not supported")
 	}