Re: error pushing stash ?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:17:55PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Since no version of receive-pack accepts these "funny refs", perhaps we
> should mirror the check when considering the list of refs to send. IOW,
> don't even make them eligible for matching or mirroring. Patch is below.
> [...]
> +	/* we already know it starts with refs/ to get here */
> +	if (check_ref_format(refname + 5))
> +		return 0;

It occurs to me that since I didn't give a good commit message, and
since I replied to a several-weeks-old message, this might be confusing.
But what I am suggesting is that git-push should not bother trying to
send something that it knows git-receive-pack will refuse. So this check
goes into builtin-send-pack.c, and is an exact mirror of the one in
builtin-receive-pack.c:

 $ sed -n 177,181p builtin-receive-pack.c
        /* only refs/... are allowed */
        if (prefixcmp(name, "refs/") || check_ref_format(name + 5)) {
                error("refusing to create funny ref '%s' remotely", name);
                return "funny refname";
        }

-Peff