Re: git push bug?

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Oct 18, 2007, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <0DAC53EF-021D-441C-9520-9795AAB6DE54@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <1192719040.9433.5.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>

On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

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> I thougth I could create a new branch on the server using:
>
> # > git push ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git linus:refs/linus
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11  
> forwarding.
> updating 'refs/linus' using 'refs/heads/linus'
>  from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>  to bbf25010f1a6b761914430f5fca081ec8c7accd1
> Generating pack...
> Done counting 0 objects.
> Writing 0 objects...
> Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> 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'
>
> but that doesn't work. Am I doing this wrong?

Include 'heads' in your remote refspec:

    git push ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git linus:refs/heads/linus

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". Pushing a refspec with an empty local part should delete the "funny refname" on the remote:

    git push ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git :refs/linus

Did this solve your problem?

	Steffen