Re: git push bug?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 19, 2007, 00:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20071019002451.GQ14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <0DAC53EF-021D-441C-9520-9795AAB6DE54@zib.de>

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.

-- 
Shawn.