It may be unclear that --all (or even --mirror?) and --tags or explicit refspecs are illegal combinations for git push. Git was silently failing for these cases, while we can complaint more properly about it. Signed-off-by: Marek Zawirski <marek.zawirski@xxxxxxxxx> --- I forgot about this one, it was reported long time ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/85229 It seems that it may be really unclear what's going on with git failing on $ git push --tags --all and similar, as it is implementation related perhaps. If it's not allowed, let's just inform, hm? builtin-push.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-push.c b/builtin-push.c index c1ed68d..cc6666f 100644 --- a/builtin-push.c +++ b/builtin-push.c @@ -59,8 +59,17 @@ static int do_push(const char *repo, int flags) if (remote->mirror) flags |= (TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR|TRANSPORT_PUSH_FORCE); - if ((flags & (TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL|TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR)) && refspec) - return -1; + if ((flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL) && refspec) { + if (!strcmp(*refspec, "refs/tags/*")) + return error("--all and --tags are incompatible"); + return error("--all can't be combined with refspecs"); + } + + if ((flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR) && refspec) { + if (!strcmp(*refspec, "refs/tags/*")) + return error("--mirror and --tags are incompatible"); + return error("--mirror can't be combined with refspecs"); + } if ((flags & (TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL|TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR)) == (TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL|TRANSPORT_PUSH_MIRROR)) { -- 1.5.6.3 -- 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