# [JGIT] Pushing the HEAD ref? 2 messages from 2009-03-17 to 2009-03-17. Participants: Daniel Cheng, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18337 ## Daniel Cheng, 2009-03-17 04:04 Subject: [JGIT] Pushing the HEAD ref? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ff6a9c820903162104v2ca62437ua3da6bafba3ea101%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi List, When I develop the freenet transport, I found the refWriter in WalkPushConnection never write the HEAD refs, even if this is a new repository. Is this the expected behaviour? This cause error when I clone the repository. Regards, Daniel Cheng. ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2009-03-17 14:28 Subject: Re: [JGIT] Pushing the HEAD ref? Message-ID: <20090317142835.GB20222@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090317142835.GB20222%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` Daniel Cheng wrote: > > When I develop the freenet transport, I found the refWriter in > WalkPushConnection never write the HEAD refs, even if this is a new > repository. > Is this the expected behaviour? This cause error when I clone the repository. Nope. Check WalkPushConnection's createNewRepository(). The method is called from line 162 where we try to create a new HEAD symbolic ref to one of the refs/heads/$name being pushed, and we also put a tiny config file. This way a repository pushed over sftp:// is a valid repository if you later get shell access to it. Sounds like you didn't push a refs/heads/$name when you created the repository, or you something is broken in this section. -- Shawn. ```