Re: Bug report: stash in upstream caused remote fetch to fail

> > I was going to ask you to send your repository, but I can easily
> > reproduce here. I guess people don't run into it because it's uncommon
> > to fetch the whole refs/ namespace from a non-bare repo (and bare repos
> > do not tend to have stashes). Here's a minimal reproduction recipe:
> >
> >   git init repo &&
> >   cd repo &&
> >   echo content >foo &&
> >   git add . &&
> >   git commit -m foo &&
> >   echo more >>foo &&
> >   git stash &&
> >   git init --bare sub &&
> >   cd sub &&
> >   git fetch .. 'refs/*:refs/*'
> >
> > It looks like we are not feeding refs/stash properly to pack-objects.
> > I'll try to take a closer look later today.
> 
> I looked at this in the past and I vaguely recall that we reject it
> in the for-each-ref loop with check-ref-format saying "eh, that is a
> single-level name".
> 
> At that point I stopped digging, thinking it was a feature ;-)
> based on your exact observation about stash vs bare/non-bare.