5 hours ago, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:05:37AM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>
> > Is there anything broken with pushing with mirror over HTTP? I'm
> > trying that with a github url, and I get a broken-looking error
> > message:
> >
> > remote part of refspec is not a valid name in :.have
>
> It's probably nothing to do with http, but rather with alternate
> object databases on the server (which GitHub uses heavily). The
> server hands out fake ".have" refs telling you it has some other
> branch tips to base packs off of. So I suspect the "push --mirror"
> code is simply wrong for trying to update those refs (it may be
> exacerbated by using http, though, as the remote helper code seems
> to have some extra checks).
Ah -- I thought that this was some result of parsing some text message
or something like that, maybe if the error was
remote part of refspec is not a valid name in ":.have"
or even
remote part of refspec is not a valid name in: :.have
it would have been clearer? Seems like it's a good place for this
since some `:foo' is likely to appear there, and the colon can be
confused as part of the text.
Also, maybe the man page should say something about `--mirror' not
working well with such servers? It looks to me like mirroring to
github and to google code would be pretty popular.
> > and with the google code, I get:
> >
> > error: unable to push to unqualified destination: HEAD
> >
> > Pushing to both of these work fine without `--mirror'.
>
> This one, I'm not sure. It may be related.
>
> > (BTW, as a workaround, I'm using
> > push --force --tags <url> :
> > is this achieving the same effect for a repo without weird refs?)
>
> Not quite. I think:
>
> git push --force <url> refs/*:refs/*
>
> would be closer.
Thanks -- I'll use that instead.
> But even that's not quite right. I believe that "--mirror" will
> also delete any remote refs that don't exist locally (which is why
> you are seeing the ":.have" refspec above, which attempts to delete
> it).
Is there some way of doing that? (We do use a branch during releases
that is deleted after the release, so I need to propagate these
deletions.)
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