When "git push" is configured to use the push negotiation, a push of deletion of a branch (without pushing anything else) may end up not having anything to negotiate for the common ancestor discovery. In such a case, we end up making an internal invocation of "git fetch --negotiate-only" without any "--negotiate-tip" parameters that stops the negotiate-only fetch from being run, which by itself is not a bad thing (one fewer round-trip), but the end-user sees a "fatal: --negotiate-only needs one or more --negotiation-tip=*" message that the user cannot act upon. Teach "git push" to notice the situation and omit performing the negotiate-only fetch to begin with. One fewer process spawned, one fewer "alarming" message given the user. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- send-pack.c | 13 +++++++++++-- t/t5516-fetch-push.sh | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git c/send-pack.c w/send-pack.c index 713da582d7..fa2f5eec17 100644 --- c/send-pack.c +++ w/send-pack.c @@ -427,17 +427,26 @@ static void get_commons_through_negotiation(const char *url, struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT; const struct ref *ref; int len = the_hash_algo->hexsz + 1; /* hash + NL */ + int nr_negotiation_tip = 0; child.git_cmd = 1; child.no_stdin = 1; child.out = -1; strvec_pushl(&child.args, "fetch", "--negotiate-only", NULL); for (ref = remote_refs; ref; ref = ref->next) { - if (!is_null_oid(&ref->new_oid)) - strvec_pushf(&child.args, "--negotiation-tip=%s", oid_to_hex(&ref->new_oid)); + if (!is_null_oid(&ref->new_oid)) { + strvec_pushf(&child.args, "--negotiation-tip=%s", + oid_to_hex(&ref->new_oid)); + nr_negotiation_tip++; + } } strvec_push(&child.args, url); + if (!nr_negotiation_tip) { + child_process_clear(&child); + return; + } + if (start_command(&child)) die(_("send-pack: unable to fork off fetch subprocess")); diff --git c/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh w/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh index 2e7c0e1648..a3f18404d9 100755 --- c/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh +++ w/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh @@ -230,6 +230,17 @@ test_expect_success 'push with negotiation proceeds anyway even if negotiation f test_grep "push negotiation failed" err ' +test_expect_success 'push deletion with negotiation' ' + mk_empty testrepo && + git push testrepo $the_first_commit:refs/heads/master && + git ls-remote testrepo >ls-remote && + git -c push.negotiate=1 push testrepo \ + :master $the_first_commit:refs/heads/next 2>errors-2 && + test_grep ! "negotiate-only needs one or " errors-2 && + git -c push.negotiate=1 push testrepo :next 2>errors-1 && + test_grep ! "negotiate-only needs one or " errors-1 +' + test_expect_success 'push with negotiation does not attempt to fetch submodules' ' mk_empty submodule_upstream && test_commit -C submodule_upstream submodule_commit &&