go.mod

What
---
Change the default `HTTP.Client` to
`github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp.Client` to get automatic retries
and exponential backoff.

We retry the request 2 times resulting in 3 attempts of sending the
request, the min retry wait is 1 second, and the maximum is 15
seconds.

Hide the retry logic behind a temporary feature flag
`FF_GITLAB_SHELL_RETRYABLE_HTTP` to easily roll this out in GitLab.com.
When we verify that this works as expected we will remove
`FF_GITLAB_SHELL_RETRYABLE_HTTP` and have the retry logic as the default
logic.

Why
---
In https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/7979 users
end up seeing the following errors when trying to `git-clone(1)` a
repository locally on in CI.

```shell
remote: ===============================
remote:
remote: ERROR: Internal API unreachable
remote:
remote: ================================
```

When we look at the application logs we see the following error:

```json
{ "err": "http://gitlab-webservice-git.gitlab.svc:8181/api/v4/internal/allowed":
dial tcp 10.69.184.120:8181: connect: connection refused", "msg":
"Internal API unreachable"}
```

In
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/7979#note_1222670120
we've correlated these `connection refused` errors with infrastructure
events that remove the git pods that are hosting
`gitlab-webservice-git` service. We could try to make the underlying
infrastructure more reactive to these changes as suggested in
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/7979#note_1225164944
but we can still end up serving bad requests.

Implementing retry logic for 5xx or other errors would allow users to
still be able to `git-clone(1)` reposirories, although it being slower.
This is espically important during CI runs so users don't have to retry
jobs themselves.

Reference: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/7979
Closes: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-shell/-/issues/604


Signed-off-by: Steve Azzopardi <sazzopardi@gitlab.com>