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[PATCH v4 1/2] receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsage

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ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2023, 10:20 UTC
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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".

Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/receive-pack.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
index cd5c7a28eff..c24616a3ac6 100644
--- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ static const char *update(struct command *cmd, struct shallow_info *si)
 
 	/* only refs/... are allowed */
 	if (!starts_with(name, "refs/") || check_refname_format(name + 5, 0)) {
-		rp_error("refusing to create funny ref '%s' remotely", name);
+		rp_error("refusing to update funny ref '%s' remotely", name);
 		ret = "funny refname";
 		goto out;
 	}
-- 
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  2. 1/2 receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsageZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Jan 17, 2023
  3. 2/2 [RFC] push: allow delete one level refZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Jan 17, 2023
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJan 17, 2023
  5. ZheNing HuJan 19, 2023
  6. 0/2 [RFC] push: allow delete one level refZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Feb 4, 2023
  7. 1/2 receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsageZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Feb 4, 2023
  8. 2/2 [RFC] push: allow delete one level refZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Feb 4, 2023
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  10. ZheNing HuFeb 24, 2023
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  12. ZheNing HuFeb 25, 2023
  13. 0/2 [RFC] push: allow delete one level refZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Feb 27, 2023
  14. 1/2 receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsageZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Feb 27, 2023
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2023
  16. ZheNing HuMar 1, 2023
  17. 2/2 [RFC] push: allow delete single-level refZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Feb 27, 2023
  18. 0/2 [RFC] push: allow delete one level refZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Mar 1, 2023
  19. 1/2 receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsageZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Mar 1, 2023
  20. 2/2 push: allow delete single-level refZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget, Mar 1, 2023

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