Subject: [PATCH] fetch: do not create ref from empty name

From: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:38:36 +0200

Previously, the refspec "<src>:" would be expanded to
"<src>:refs/heads/". Instead, treat an empty <dst> just like refspecs
without a colon.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <[email-masked]>
---

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:08:25PM +1000, Jon Seymour wrote:
> Can someone tell me why this happens?
> 
>     error: * Ignoring funny ref 'refs/heads/' locally

This fixes it.

Note that "git fetch origin :" is short for "git fetch origin
HEAD", which stores the remote HEAD in FETCH_HEAD. You probably want "git
fetch origin", without an explicit refspec, which defaults to "git fetch
origin 'refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'", i.e. store remote branches in
the namespace for tracking branches.

Clemens

 remote.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 08a5964..99e7797 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ struct ref *get_remote_ref(const struct ref *remote_refs, const char *name)
 
 static struct ref *get_local_ref(const char *name)
 {
-	if (!name)
+	if (!name || name[0] == '\0')
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (!prefixcmp(name, "refs/"))
-- 
1.6.3.1.147.g637c3