# [PATCH] helpful error message when send-pack finds no refs in common. 1 messages from 2007-10-16 to 2007-10-16. Participants: Andrew Clausen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10327 ## Andrew Clausen, 2007-10-16 21:31 Subject: [PATCH] helpful error message when send-pack finds no refs in common. Message-ID: <20071016213139.GF13454@econ.upenn.edu> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071016213139.GF13454%40econ.upenn.edu ``` Hi all, Please cc me, I'm not subscribed. git-push fails when pushing into an empty repository if you don't specify a branch: git --bare init some-repo git-push some-repo To get this to work, you need to do git-push some-repo master I attached a patch so that the error message suggests trying the latter. Cheers, Andrew >From ee888ea1a7d2e75a0439569e36eabe4620e8f833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:16:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] helpful error message when send-pack finds no refs in common. Signed-off-by: Andrew Clausen --- send-pack.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/send-pack.c b/send-pack.c index f74e66a..f0b0825 100644 --- a/send-pack.c +++ b/send-pack.c @@ -204,7 +204,8 @@ static int send_pack(int in, int out, struct remote *remote, int nr_refspec, cha return -1; if (!remote_refs) { - fprintf(stderr, "No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.\n"); + fprintf(stderr, + "No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.\n" "Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'.\n"); return 0; } -- 1.5.3.1 ```