Re: Pushing with --mirror over HTTP?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 19, 2011, 17:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20111219171211.GA20844@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20072.12104.965815.994761@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:58:16PM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:

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> 5 hours ago, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:05:37AM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there anything broken with pushing with mirror over HTTP?  I'm
> > > trying that with a github url, and I get a broken-looking error
> > > message:
> > > 
> > >   remote part of refspec is not a valid name in :.have
> > 
> > It's probably nothing to do with http, but rather with alternate
> > object databases on the server (which GitHub uses heavily). The
> > server hands out fake ".have" refs telling you it has some other
> > branch tips to base packs off of. So I suspect the "push --mirror"
> > code is simply wrong for trying to update those refs (it may be
> > exacerbated by using http, though, as the remote helper code seems
> > to have some extra checks).

Sorry for the very delayed response on your bug, but at least I have good news. :)

It should be fixed by:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/187373

(I was trying to fix another bug there, but see my followup for a discussion of .have).

-Peff