Move the early return if we have no remote refs in send_pack() earlier. When this was added in 4c353e890c0 (Warn when send-pack does nothing, 2005-12-04) one of the first things we'd do was to abort, but as of cfee10a773b (send-pack/receive-pack: allow errors to be reported back to pusher., 2005-12-25) we've added numerous server_supports() conditions that are acted on later in the function, that won't be used if we don't have remote refs. Then as of 477673d6f39 (send-pack: support push negotiation, 2021-05-04) we started doing even more work on the assumption that we had some remote refs to feed to --negotiation-tip=* options. We only hit this condition if we have nothing to push, so we don't need to consider "push.negotiate" etc. only to do nothing with that information. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- send-pack.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/send-pack.c b/send-pack.c index 9cb9f716509..5a79e0e7110 100644 --- a/send-pack.c +++ b/send-pack.c @@ -486,6 +486,12 @@ int send_pack(struct send_pack_args *args, const char *push_cert_nonce = NULL; struct packet_reader reader; + if (!remote_refs) { + fprintf(stderr, "No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.\n" + "Perhaps you should specify a branch.\n"); + return 0; + } + git_config_get_bool("push.negotiate", &push_negotiate); if (push_negotiate) get_commons_through_negotiation(args->url, remote_refs, &commons); @@ -534,11 +540,6 @@ int send_pack(struct send_pack_args *args, } } - if (!remote_refs) { - fprintf(stderr, "No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.\n" - "Perhaps you should specify a branch.\n"); - return 0; - } if (args->atomic && !atomic_supported) die(_("the receiving end does not support --atomic push")); -- 2.32.0.636.g43e71d69cff