Documentation: illustrate send-pack pipeline.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

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+git-send-pack
+=============
+
+Overall operation
+-----------------
+
+. Connects to the remote side and invokes git-receive-pack.
+
+. Learns what refs the remote has and what commit they point at.
+  Matches them to the refspecs we are pushing.
+
+. Checks if there are non-fast-forwards.  Unlike fetch-pack,
+  the repository send-pack runs in is supposed to be a superset
+  of the recipient in fast-forward cases, so there is no need
+  for want/have exchanges, and fast-forward check can be done
+  locally.  Tell the result to the other end.
+
+. Calls pack_objects() which generates a packfile and sends it
+  over to the other end.
+
+. If the remote side is new enough (v1.1.0 or later), wait for
+  the unpack and hook status from the other end.
+
+. Exit with appropriate error codes.
+
+
+Pack_objects pipeline
+---------------------
+
+This function gets one file descriptor (`out`) which is either a
+socket (over the network) or a pipe (local).  What's written to
+this fd goes to git-receive-pack to be unpacked.
+
+    send-pack ---> fd ---> receive-pack
+
+It somehow forks once, but does not wait for it.  I am not sure
+why.
+
+The forked child calls rev_list_generate() with that file
+descriptor (while the parent closes `out` -- the child will be
+the one that writes the packfile to the other end).
+
+    send-pack
+       |
+       rev-list-generate ---> fd ---> receive-pack
+
+
+Then rev-list-generate forks after creates a pipe; the child
+will become a pipeline "rev-list --stdin | pack-objects", which
+is the rev_list() function, while the parent feeds that pipeline
+the list of refs.
+
+    send-pack
+       |
+       rev-list-generate ---> fd ---> receive-pack
+          | ^ (pipe)
+         v |
+         rev-list
+
+The child process, before calling rev-list, rearranges the file
+descriptors:
+
+. what it reads from rev-list-generate via pipe becomes the
+  stdin; this is to feed the upstream of the pipeline which will
+  be git-rev-list process.
+
+. what it writes to its stdout goes to the fd connected to
+  receive-pack.
+
+On the other hand, the parent process, before starting to feed
+the child pipeline, closes the reading side of the pipe and fd
+to receive-pack.
+
+    send-pack
+       |
+       rev-list-generate
+          |
+         v [0]
+         rev-list [1] ---> receive-pack
+
+The parent then writes to the pipe and later closes it.  There
+is a commented out waitpid to wait for the rev-list side before
+it exits, I again do not understand why.
+
+The rev-list function further sets up a pipe and forks to run
+git-rev-list piped to git-pack-objects.  The child side, before
+exec'ing git-pack-objects, rearranges the file descriptors:
+
+. what it reads from the pipe becomes the stdin; this gets the
+  list of objects from the git-rev-list process.
+
+. its stdout is already connected to receive-pack, so what it
+  generates goes there.
+
+The parent process arranges its file descriptors before exec'ing
+git-rev-list:
+
+. its stdout is sent to the pipe to feed git-pack-objects.
+
+. its stdin is already connected to rev-list-generate and will
+  read the set of refs from it.
+
+
+    send-pack
+       |
+       rev-list-generate
+          |
+         v [0]
+         git-rev-list [1] ---> [0] git-pack-objects [1] ---> receive-pack
+
+
+