Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsage

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> "ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
> >
> > When the user deletes the remote one level branch through
> > "git push origin -d refs/foo", remote will return an error:
> > "refusing to create funny ref 'refs/foo' remotely", here we
> > are not creating "refs/foo" instead wants to delete it, so a
> > better error description here would be: "refusing to update
> > funny ref 'refs/foo' remotely".
>
> OK, update() works on each ref affected, not just the ones that are
> updated, but also created and deleted.  The updated wording may
> probably be better.
>
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  builtin/receive-pack.c | 2 +-
> >  t/t5516-fetch-push.sh  | 5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > ...
> > +test_expect_success 'push with onelevel ref' '
> > +     mk_test testrepo heads/main &&
> > +     test_must_fail git push testrepo HEAD:refs/onelevel
> > +'
> > +
>
> I am not sure what relevance this new test has to the proposed
> update to the message, though.
>