git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: git fetch over ssh trouble

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 26, 2007, 05:24 UTC
Message-ID
<7vmz462wdh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To
<20070126050842.GA18058@fieldses.org>
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
Show 6 quoted lines
> 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. Should it fetch HEAD?

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#'+'}
Previous: J. Bruce FieldsNext: J. Bruce Fields
Message 2 of 5 in “git fetch over ssh trouble”
  1. J. Bruce FieldsJan 26, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  3. J. Bruce FieldsJan 26, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 26, 2007
  5. J. Bruce FieldsJan 26, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.