# [PATCH] git-gui: Teach start_push_anywhere_action{} to notice when remote is a mirror.

3 messages from 2008-12-02 to 2008-12-02. Participants: Mark Burton, Shawn O. Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16559

## Mark Burton, 2008-12-02 15:15

Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: Teach start_push_anywhere_action{} to notice when remote is a mirror.
Message-ID: <20081202151502.3f30ced4@crow>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081202151502.3f30ced4%40crow

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When the destination repository is a mirror, this function goofed by still
passing a refspec to git-push. Now it notices that the remote is a mirror
and holds the refspec.

Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
---

 This patch stops git-gui from annoying git-push when the remote is a
 mirror. A further enhancement would be to disable the branch names list
 in the dialog when the selected destination is a mirror. As it stands, you can
 select a branch name from the list but it will be ignored (this could possibly
 confuse/annoy people). But that's a bunch more work so I'm stopping here for
 now.

 git-gui/lib/transport.tcl |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-gui/lib/transport.tcl b/git-gui/lib/transport.tcl
index e419d78..b18d9c7 100644
--- a/git-gui/lib/transport.tcl
+++ b/git-gui/lib/transport.tcl
@@ -33,10 +33,15 @@ proc push_to {remote} {
 proc start_push_anywhere_action {w} {
 	global push_urltype push_remote push_url push_thin push_tags
 	global push_force
+	global repo_config
 
+	set is_mirror 0
 	set r_url {}
 	switch -- $push_urltype {
-	remote {set r_url $push_remote}
+	remote {
+		set r_url $push_remote
+		catch {set is_mirror $repo_config(remote.$push_remote.mirror)}
+	}
 	url {set r_url $push_url}
 	}
 	if {$r_url eq {}} return
@@ -53,23 +58,29 @@ proc start_push_anywhere_action {w} {
 		lappend cmd --tags
 	}
 	lappend cmd $r_url
-	set cnt 0
-	foreach i [$w.source.l curselection] {
-		set b [$w.source.l get $i]
-		lappend cmd "refs/heads/$b:refs/heads/$b"
-		incr cnt
-	}
-	if {$cnt == 0} {
-		return
-	} elseif {$cnt == 1} {
-		set unit branch
+	if {$is_mirror} {
+		set cons [console::new \
+			[mc "push %s" $r_url] \
+			[mc "Mirroring to %s" $r_url]]
 	} else {
-		set unit branches
-	}
+		set cnt 0
+		foreach i [$w.source.l curselection] {
+			set b [$w.source.l get $i]
+			lappend cmd "refs/heads/$b:refs/heads/$b"
+			incr cnt
+		}
+		if {$cnt == 0} {
+			return
+		} elseif {$cnt == 1} {
+			set unit branch
+		} else {
+			set unit branches
+		}
 
-	set cons [console::new \
-		[mc "push %s" $r_url] \
-		[mc "Pushing %s %s to %s" $cnt $unit $r_url]]
+		set cons [console::new \
+			[mc "push %s" $r_url] \
+			[mc "Pushing %s %s to %s" $cnt $unit $r_url]]
+	}
 	console::exec $cons $cmd
 	destroy $w
 }
-- 
1.6.0.4

```

## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-12-02 15:30

Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Teach start_push_anywhere_action{} to notice when remote is a mirror.
Message-ID: <20081202153007.GJ23984@spearce.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081202153007.GJ23984%40spearce.org
In-Reply-To: <20081202151502.3f30ced4@crow>

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Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> wrote:
> When the destination repository is a mirror, this function goofed by still
> passing a refspec to git-push. Now it notices that the remote is a mirror
> and holds the refspec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>

Thanks.

>  This patch stops git-gui from annoying git-push when the remote is a
>  mirror. A further enhancement would be to disable the branch names list
>  in the dialog when the selected destination is a mirror. As it stands, you can
>  select a branch name from the list but it will be ignored (this could possibly
>  confuse/annoy people). But that's a bunch more work so I'm stopping here for
>  now.

Yea, it is a chunk of work.  I thought about trying to do it myself
right now, but realized I won't be able to do it in 15 minutes and
gave up.  :-)

Unfortunately this patch adds a new string to be translated and I've
already made a request for the translators to update their languages,
and several have.  I'll send out another request to let them know
there's this new string; we should have enough time before 1.6.1
goes final.

-- 
Shawn.

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## Mark Burton, 2008-12-02 16:31

Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Teach start_push_anywhere_action{} to notice when remote is a mirror.
Message-ID: <20081202163104.29306f22@crow>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081202163104.29306f22%40crow
In-Reply-To: <20081202153007.GJ23984@spearce.org>

```

Hi Shawn,

> Yea, it is a chunk of work.  I thought about trying to do it myself
> right now, but realized I won't be able to do it in 15 minutes and
> gave up.  :-)

Well, when you/someone looks at updating the push dialog you could
consider adding another checkbox that disables the refspec so that the
push uses whatever default refspec has been configured. I think that would
be a useful addition.

Cheers,

Mark

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