Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@xxxxxx> 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. -- Shawn. - 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
