When receive-pack advertises its list of refs, it generally hides the capabilities information after a NUL at the end of the first ref. However, when we have an empty repository, there are no refs, and therefore receive-pack writes a fake ref "capabilities^{}" with the capabilities afterwards. On the client side, git reads the result with get_remote_heads. We pick the capabilities from the end of the line, and then call check_ref to make sure the ref name is valid. We see that it isn't, and don't bother adding it to our list of refs. However, the call to check_ref is enabled by passing the REF_NORMAL flag to get_remote_heads. For the regular git transport, we pass REF_NORMAL in get_refs_via_connect if we are doing a push (since only receive-pack uses this fake ref). But in remote-curl, we never use this flag, and we accept the fake ref as a real one, passing it back from the helper to the parent git-push. Most of the time this bug goes unnoticed, as the fake ref won't match our refspecs. However, if "--mirror" is used, then we see it as remote cruft to be pruned, and try to pass along a deletion refspec for it. Of course this refspec has bogus syntax (because of the ^{}), and the helper complains, aborting the push. Let's have remote-curl mirror what the builtin get_refs_via_connect does (at least for the case of using git protocol; we can leave the dumb info/refs reader as it is). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- remote-curl.c | 7 ++++--- t/t5541-http-push.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c index 0e720ee..b780ba5 100644 --- a/remote-curl.c +++ b/remote-curl.c @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static int write_discovery(int in, int out, void *data) return err; } -static struct ref *parse_git_refs(struct discovery *heads) +static struct ref *parse_git_refs(struct discovery *heads, int for_push) { struct ref *list = NULL; struct async async; @@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ static struct ref *parse_git_refs(struct discovery *heads) if (start_async(&async)) die("cannot start thread to parse advertised refs"); - get_remote_heads(async.out, &list, 0, NULL, 0, NULL); + get_remote_heads(async.out, &list, 0, NULL, + for_push ? REF_NORMAL : 0, NULL); close(async.out); if (finish_async(&async)) die("ref parsing thread failed"); @@ -268,7 +269,7 @@ static struct ref *get_refs(int for_push) heads = discover_refs("git-upload-pack"); if (heads->proto_git) - return parse_git_refs(heads); + return parse_git_refs(heads, for_push); return parse_info_refs(heads); } diff --git a/t/t5541-http-push.sh b/t/t5541-http-push.sh index a73c826..89232b2 100755 --- a/t/t5541-http-push.sh +++ b/t/t5541-http-push.sh @@ -154,5 +154,19 @@ test_expect_success 'push (chunked)' ' test $HEAD = $(git rev-parse --verify HEAD)) ' +test_expect_success 'push --all can push to empty repo' ' + d=$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/empty-all.git && + git init --bare "$d" && + git --git-dir="$d" config http.receivepack true && + git push --all "$HTTPD_URL"/smart/empty-all.git +' + +test_expect_success 'push --mirror can push to empty repo' ' + d=$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/empty-mirror.git && + git init --bare "$d" && + git --git-dir="$d" config http.receivepack true && + git push --mirror "$HTTPD_URL"/smart/empty-mirror.git +' + stop_httpd test_done -- 1.7.7.4.13.g57bf4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html