transport-helper: clarify pushing without refspecs

This has never worked, since it's inception the code simply skips all the refs, essentially telling fast-export to do nothing. Let's at least tell the user what's going on. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Felipe Contreras committed Apr 17, 2013 at 23:14 UTC 21610d820b97583a8f4e3e7f4a48716c8e32fd92
3 files changed +8 -7
Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
+2 -2
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ Miscellaneous capabilities
162 For remote helpers that implement 'import' or 'export', this capability
163 allows the refs to be constrained to a private namespace, instead of
164 writing to refs/heads or refs/remotes directly.
165 - It is recommended that all importers providing the 'import' or 'export'
166 - capabilities use this.
165 + It is recommended that all importers providing the 'import'
166 + capability use this. It's mandatory for 'export'.
167 +
168 A helper advertising the capability
169 `refspec refs/heads/*:refs/svn/origin/branches/*`
t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh
+3 -3
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ test_expect_success 'pulling without refspecs' '
111 compare_refs local2 HEAD server HEAD
112 '
113
114 -test_expect_failure 'pushing without refspecs' '
114 +test_expect_success 'pushing without refspecs' '
115 test_when_finished "(cd local2 && git reset --hard origin)" &&
116 (cd local2 &&
117 echo content >>file &&
118 git commit -a -m ten &&
119 - GIT_REMOTE_TESTGIT_REFSPEC="" git push) &&
120 - compare_refs local2 HEAD server HEAD
119 + GIT_REMOTE_TESTGIT_REFSPEC="" test_must_fail git push 2>../error) &&
120 + grep "remote-helper doesn.t support push; refspec needed" error
121 '
122
123 test_expect_success 'pulling without marks' '
transport-helper.c
+3 -2
@@ -785,6 +785,9 @@ static int push_refs_with_export(struct transport *transport,
785 struct string_list revlist_args = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
786 struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
787
788 + if (!data->refspecs)
789 + die("remote-helper doesn't support push; refspec needed");
790 +
791 helper = get_helper(transport);
792
793 write_constant(helper->in, "export\n");
@@ -795,8 +798,6 @@ static int push_refs_with_export(struct transport *transport,
798 char *private;
799 unsigned char sha1[20];
800
798 - if (!data->refspecs)
799 - continue;
801 private = apply_refspecs(data->refspecs, data->refspec_nr, ref->name);
802 if (private && !get_sha1(private, sha1)) {
803 strbuf_addf(&buf, "^%s", private);