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> On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 12:24:39AM -0700, Denton Liu wrote:
>> In the case where one pushes a non-existent oid to an unqualified
>> destination, we encounter the following BUG
>>
>> error: The destination you provided is not a full refname (i.e.,
>> starting with "refs/"). We tried to guess what you meant by:
>>
>> - Looking for a ref that matches 'branch' on the remote side.
>> - Checking if the <src> being pushed ('0000000000000000000000000000000000000001')
>> is a ref in "refs/{heads,tags}/". If so we add a corresponding
>> refs/{heads,tags}/ prefix on the remote side.
>>
>> Neither worked, so we gave up. You must fully qualify the ref.
>> BUG: remote.c:1221: '0000000000000000000000000000000000000001' should be commit/tag/tree/blob, is '-1'
>> fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>
>> However, this isn't actually a bug so replace it with an advise()
>> message.
>>
>> Changes since v4:
>>
>> * Put the switch statement refactoring patch last so that we don't get
>> compile errors from a missing variable
>
> Thanks, this version looks good to me.