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Re: git fetch over ssh trouble

From
JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Jan 26, 2007, 05:34 UTC
Message-ID
<20070126053400.GB18058@fieldses.org>
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:24:42PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> 
> > Any idea why this is happening?:
> >
> > bfields@pickle:git$ git fetch linux-nfs
> > Password:
> > /usr/local/bin/git-parse-remote: line 145: test: !=: unary operator
> > expected
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> I wonder what should happen when you do not have anything
> defined for "linus-nfs" shorthand.
Oops; I didn't notice that!
> Should it fetch HEAD?

In my case I'd want it to either default to what I actually wanted (+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs/*), or just fail with something helpful:

	"Nothing to fetch"?
	"No refspec given, and no default fetch configured for linux-nfs"?
	"What do you want me to fetch?"?
I don't know.
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> 
> diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh
> index 1122c83..12023d2 100755
> --- a/git-parse-remote.sh
> +++ b/git-parse-remote.sh
> @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ get_remote_default_refs_for_push () {
>  # a merge candidate
>  expand_refs_wildcard () {
>  	first_one=yes
> +	test "$#" = 0 && echo empty
>  	for ref
>  	do
>  		lref=${ref#'+'}
> 
Yep, now it does nothing much more quietly....
--b.
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