Hi,
I tried to fetch refs/stash from my repository (for backup), however 'git fetch myremote +refs/stash:refs/remotes/myremote/stash' just fails with $? = 1 (without any output).
That's confusing because 'git ls-remote myremote' shows refs/stash.
After some debugging I found the reason for the problem.
'git fetch-pack /path/to/myremote refs/stash' also just returns $? = 1.
filter_refs() skips 'refs/stash', because check_ref_format() returns CHECK_REF_FORMAT_ONELEVEL.
Is that a bug or a feature?
The easiest fix would be to allow CHECK_REF_FORMAT_ONELEVEL to pass in the same way as CHECK_REF_FORMAT_OK. But I'm not sure if that would have other side effects.
For now I work around it by doing: 'mkdir stash.d; cd stash.d; ln -s ../stash .' and use git fetch myremote +refs/stash.d/stash:refs/remotes/myremote/stash
metze