On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 12:24:39AM -0700, Denton Liu wrote:
> In the case where one pushes a non-existent oid to an unqualified
> destination, we encounter the following BUG
>
> error: The destination you provided is not a full refname (i.e.,
> starting with "refs/"). We tried to guess what you meant by:
>
> - Looking for a ref that matches 'branch' on the remote side.
> - Checking if the <src> being pushed ('0000000000000000000000000000000000000001')
> is a ref in "refs/{heads,tags}/". If so we add a corresponding
> refs/{heads,tags}/ prefix on the remote side.
>
> Neither worked, so we gave up. You must fully qualify the ref.
> BUG: remote.c:1221: '0000000000000000000000000000000000000001' should be commit/tag/tree/blob, is '-1'
> fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> However, this isn't actually a bug so replace it with an advise()
> message.
>
> Changes since v4:
>
> * Put the switch statement refactoring patch last so that we don't get
> compile errors from a missing variable
Thanks, this version looks good to me.
Patrick
