RE: git push bug?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] 
> Sent: den 19 oktober 2007 02:25
> To: Steffen Prohaska
> Cc: joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se; git
> Subject: Re: git push bug?
> 
> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> > On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > >
> > ># > git push ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git linus:refs/linus
> ...
> > >error: refusing to create funny ref 'refs/linus' locally
> > >ng refs/linus funny refname
> > >error: failed to push to 'ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git'
> ...
> > You may need to cleanup though. I'm not sure if the remote side
> > already created 'refs/linus'. The error message only indicates that
> > locally git refused to create the "funny refname".
> 
> Cute.  The error message "error: refusing to create .. locally"
> is actually coming from the remote site.  Locally here is
> actually remotely.  We *really* should change that.  Its l.169 of
> receive-pack.c, which is only running on the remote side.  :)
> 
> Anyone game to improve that error message?  Should be a pretty
> simple patch.  One of the may low-hanging fruits in Git.