[PATCH 0/8 v2] improve push's refspec handling

This patch series improves the refspec handling in push.

It is a replacement for the series in sp/push-refspec (666df53d6868bf56ca6c9ed0a927d612c67fe68c).

The series addresses some issues that were recently discussed on the
mailing list.
- creating remote refs requires a more explicit command [1].
- the current branch can be pushed as "git push HEAD" [2].
- matching of refs use same rules as git rev-parse [3].
- annoying error messages when working with shared repos are supressed [4].

[1] http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119286893014690&w=2 [2] http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119089831513994&w=2 [3] http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119224567631084&w=2 [4] http://marc.info/?t=119305127000001&r=1&w=2

Note, existing setups may break. Therefore, we need to decide if this series can be applied before git 1.6.

All tests pass.

    Steffen

 Documentation/git-http-push.txt |    6 ++
 Documentation/git-push.txt      |    8 ++-
 Documentation/git-send-pack.txt |   18 ++++-
 builtin-push.c                  |    6 ++-
 builtin-rev-parse.c             |   27 +++++---
 cache.h                         |    2 +
 http-push.c                     |    9 ++-
 remote.c                        |   41 ++++++++----
 remote.h                        |    2 +-
 send-pack.c                     |   70 ++++++++++++++++-----
 sha1_name.c                     |   52 +++++++++++++----
 t/t5516-fetch-push.sh           |  127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 transport.c                     |    8 ++-
 transport.h                     |    1 +
 14 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

 [PATCH 1/8] push: change push to fail if short ref name does not exist
 [PATCH 2/8] push: teach push new flag --create
    these two should be kept together.

 [PATCH 3/8] add get_sha1_with_real_ref() returning full name of ref on demand

 [PATCH 4/8] rev-parse: teach "git rev-parse --symbolic" to print the full ref name
    This one is a bit off-topic and could be skipped.

 [PATCH 5/8] push, send-pack: support pushing HEAD to real ref name

 [PATCH 6/8] add ref_cmp_full_short() comparing full ref name with a short name
 [PATCH 7/8] push: use same rules as git-rev-parse to resolve refspecs

 [PATCH 8/8] push: teach push to be quiet if local ref is strict subset of remote ref