Currently GitLab serves requests to get raw blobs via Ruby-on-Rails code and
Unicorn. Because RoR/Unicorn is relatively heavyweight, in environment where
there are a lot of simultaneous requests to get raw blobs, this works very slow
and server is constantly overloaded.

On the other hand, to get raw blob content, we do not need anything from RoR
framework - we only need to have access to project git repository on filesystem,
and knowing whether access for getting data from there should be granted or
not. That means it is possible to adjust Nginx frontend to route '.../raw/....'
request to more lightweight and performant program which does this particular
task and that will be a net win.

As gitlab-workhorse is written in Go, and Go has good concurrency/parallelism
support and is generally much faster than Ruby, adding raw blob serving task to
it makes sense.

In this patch: we add infrastructure to process GET request for '/raw/...':

- extract project / ref and path from URL
- query auth backend for whether download access should be granted or not
- emit blob content via spawning external `git cat-file`

I've tried to mimic the output to be as close as the one emitted by RoR code,
with the idea that for users the change should be transparent.

As in this patch we do auth backend query for every request to get a blob, RoR
code is still loaded very much, so essentially there is no speedup yet:

  (on a 8-CPU i7-3770S with 16GB of RAM)

  # request goes to unicorn  (9 unicorn workers)
  $ ./wrk -c40 -d10 -t1 --latency https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
  Running 10s test @ https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
    1 threads and 40 connections
    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
      Latency   553.06ms  166.39ms   1.29s    80.06%
      Req/Sec    69.53     23.12   140.00     71.72%
    Latency Distribution
       50%  525.41ms
       75%  615.63ms
       90%  774.48ms
       99%    1.05s
    695 requests in 10.02s, 1.38MB read
  Requests/sec:     69.38
  Transfer/sec:    141.47KB

  # request goes to gitlab-workhorse with the following added to nginx conf
  # location ~ ^/[\w\.-]+/[\w\.-]+/raw/ {
  #   error_page 418 = @gitlab-workhorse;
  #   return 418;
  # }
  $ ./wrk -c40 -d10 -t1 --latency https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
  Running 10s test @ https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
    1 threads and 40 connections
    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
      Latency   549.37ms  220.53ms   1.69s    84.74%
      Req/Sec    71.01     25.49   160.00     70.71%
    Latency Distribution
       50%  514.66ms
       75%  584.32ms
       90%  767.46ms
       99%    1.37s
    709 requests in 10.01s, 1.26MB read
  Requests/sec:     70.83
  Transfer/sec:    128.79KB

In the next patch we'll cache requests to auth backend and that will improve
performance dramatically.

Make error style more uniform

Deprecate 'logContext' in favor of just passing Go error values.

Also adds to missing 'return' statements after a 'fail500' in archive.go.

See merge request !16

No need to check for zero size, this will be handled while storing the object.

Related to gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#3658

See merge request !14

gitCommand: Pass $HOME to git as well

Git has 3 places for configs:

   - system
   - global (per user), and
   - local  (per repository)

System config location is hardcoded at git compile time (to usually
$prefix/etc/gitconfig). Local configuration is usually picked because we
pass --git-dir to subcommand. But global configuration is currently not
picked at all, because HOME env variable is not passed to git.

Pass $HOME through and let git see it's "global" config.

Currently GitLab omnibus stores gitlab user name/email  + "autocrlf =
true" in global config, so missing it should not be a blocker for
receive/send-pack operations. But having it is more correct and can be
handy in the future if/when more git operations are done from-under
gitlab-workhorse.

Having $HOME properly set is also needed when one cannot change system
git config and have to put site-wide configuration into global git
config under $HOME.

That was the case I've hit and the reason for this patch.

See merge request !10

Git has 3 places for configs:

    - system
    - global (per user), and
    - local  (per repository)

System config location is hardcoded at git compile time (to usually
$prefix/etc/gitconfig). Local configuration is usually picked because we
pass --git-dir to subcommand. But global configuration is currently not
picked at all, because HOME env variable is not passed to git.

Pass $HOME through and let git see it's "global" config.

Currently GitLab omnibus stores gitlab user name/email  + "autocrlf =
true" in global config, so missing it should not be a blocker for
receive/send-pack operations. But having it is more correct and can be
handy in the future if/when more git operations are done from-under
gitlab-workhorse.

Having $HOME properly set is also needed when one cannot change system
git config and have to put site-wide configuration into global git
config under $HOME.

That was the case I've hit and the reason for this patch.

Download and install go before running tests

This change allows the build to run on 'shared runners'.

See merge request !13

Forward store response to client.

Part of gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#2955

Forward received response to the client.

See merge request !11

Implement multipart form rewriting to support upload offloading

1. This parses multipart form data and saves all found files as files in TempPath. TempPath is received from Rails by calling authorize request. The rewritten multipart form data contains `file.path` where the temporary file is stored, and `file.name` the original name of file as stored in Content-Disposition. The temporary file is removed afterwards, if it's not consumed by GitLab Rails. If the body is not multipart, forward request.

2. All artifacts downloads are offloaded by exposing X-Sendfile-Type extension.


See merge request !5

Change identifying header to "Gitlab-Workhorse"



See merge request !8

Use httptest.Server instead of go run to spawn a new process

I don't like solution with `go run`. What do you think about this one?


See merge request !9

LFS storage api support

Part of gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#2955

See merge request !3