wireproto: document the wonky push protocol for SSH

It took me several minutes to figure out how the "unbundle"
protocol worked. It turns out that the SSH protocol handler
sends an empty reply that is interpreted as "OK to send" and
only then does the client send the bundle payload.

On top of that, the response is different depending on whether
the operation was successful or not. I nearly pulled out my hair
deciphering this.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2385

mercurial/sshpeer.py

@@ -466,25 +466,40 class sshv1peer(wireproto.wirepeer):
         return self._sendrequest(cmd, args, framed=True).read()
 
     def _callpush(self, cmd, fp, **args):
+        # The server responds with an empty frame if the client should
+        # continue submitting the payload.
         r = self._call(cmd, **args)
         if r:
             return '', r
+
+        # The payload consists of frames with content followed by an empty
+        # frame.
         for d in iter(lambda: fp.read(4096), ''):
             self._writeframed(d)
         self._writeframed("", flush=True)
+
+        # In case of success, there is an empty frame and a frame containing
+        # the integer result (as a string).
+        # In case of error, there is a non-empty frame containing the error.
         r = self._readframed()
         if r:
             return '', r
         return self._readframed(), ''
 
     def _calltwowaystream(self, cmd, fp, **args):
+        # The server responds with an empty frame if the client should
+        # continue submitting the payload.
         r = self._call(cmd, **args)
         if r:
             # XXX needs to be made better
             raise error.Abort(_('unexpected remote reply: %s') % r)
+
+        # The payload consists of frames with content followed by an empty
+        # frame.
         for d in iter(lambda: fp.read(4096), ''):
             self._writeframed(d)
         self._writeframed("", flush=True)
+
         return self._pipei
 
     def _getamount(self):

mercurial/wireprotoserver.py

@@ -347,12 +347,16 class sshv1protocolhandler(wireprototype
         return [data[k] for k in keys]
 
     def forwardpayload(self, fpout):
+        # We initially send an empty response. This tells the client it is
+        # OK to start sending data. If a client sees any other response, it
+        # interprets it as an error.
+        _sshv1respondbytes(self._fout, b'')
+
         # The file is in the form:
         #
         # <chunk size>\n<chunk>
         # ...
         # 0\n
-        _sshv1respondbytes(self._fout, b'')
         count = int(self._fin.readline())
         while count:
             fpout.write(self._fin.read(count))