From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
To: <spearce@spearce.org>, "'Steffen Prohaska'" <prohaska@zib.de>
Cc: "'git'" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: git push bug?
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:38:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003601c81340$0277f5f0$5267a8c0@Jocke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019002451.GQ14735@spearce.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org]
> Sent: den 19 oktober 2007 02:25
> To: Steffen Prohaska
> Cc: joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se; git
> Subject: Re: git push bug?
>
> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> > On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > >
> > ># > git push ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git linus:refs/linus
> ...
> > >error: refusing to create funny ref 'refs/linus' locally
> > >ng refs/linus funny refname
> > >error: failed to push to 'ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git'
> ...
> > You may need to cleanup though. I'm not sure if the remote side
> > already created 'refs/linus'. The error message only indicates that
> > locally git refused to create the "funny refname".
>
> Cute. The error message "error: refusing to create .. locally"
> is actually coming from the remote site. Locally here is
> actually remotely. We *really* should change that. Its l.169 of
> receive-pack.c, which is only running on the remote side. :)
>
> Anyone game to improve that error message? Should be a pretty
> simple patch. One of the may low-hanging fruits in Git.
Just gave it a try, using git sendmail. Hopefully it will
reach the list :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-20 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 14:50 git push bug? Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-18 15:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-18 16:01 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-18 16:10 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19 0:49 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-18 16:13 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-18 16:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-18 16:31 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-18 22:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19 14:47 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19 17:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19 18:50 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19 22:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-20 12:05 ` Jan Hudec
2007-10-18 16:55 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-18 21:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-20 8:29 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-20 8:38 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-20 11:52 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19 0:24 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-20 17:38 ` Joakim Tjernlund [this message]
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