Subject: [PATCH v18 01/10] transport: not report a non-head push as a branch

From: Jiang Xin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:41:53 -0400

From: Jiang Xin <[email-masked]>

When pushing a new reference (not a head or tag), report it as a new
reference instead of a new branch.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <[email-masked]>
---
 t/t5516-fetch-push.sh | 2 +-
 transport.c           | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
index 9c6218f568..77938db77f 100755
--- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
+++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ test_force_fetch_tag "annotated tag" "-f -a -m'tag message'"
 test_expect_success 'push --porcelain' '
 	mk_empty testrepo &&
 	echo >.git/foo  "To testrepo" &&
-	echo >>.git/foo "*	refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master	[new branch]"  &&
+	echo >>.git/foo "*	refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master	[new reference]"  &&
 	echo >>.git/foo "Done" &&
 	git push >.git/bar --porcelain  testrepo refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master &&
 	(
diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 15f5ba4e8f..26fefd13c1 100644
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -500,9 +500,12 @@ static void print_ok_ref_status(struct ref *ref, int porcelain, int summary_widt
 				 porcelain, summary_width);
 	else if (is_null_oid(&ref->old_oid))
 		print_ref_status('*',
-			(starts_with(ref->name, "refs/tags/") ? "[new tag]" :
-			"[new branch]"),
-			ref, ref->peer_ref, NULL, porcelain, summary_width);
+				 (starts_with(ref->name, "refs/tags/")
+				  ? "[new tag]"
+				  : (starts_with(ref->name, "refs/heads/")
+				     ? "[new branch]"
+				     : "[new reference]")),
+				 ref, ref->peer_ref, NULL, porcelain, summary_width);
 	else {
 		struct strbuf quickref = STRBUF_INIT;
 		char type;
-- 
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