Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] receive-pack: fix funny ref error messsage

From: "ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:20:28 +0000

From: ZheNing Hu <[email-masked]>

When the user deletes the remote one level branch through
"git push origin -d refs/foo", remote will return an error:
"refusing to create funny ref 'refs/foo' remotely", here we
are not creating "refs/foo" instead wants to delete it, so a
better error description here would be: "refusing to update
funny ref 'refs/foo' remotely".

Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/receive-pack.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
index cd5c7a28eff..c24616a3ac6 100644
--- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ static const char *update(struct command *cmd, struct shallow_info *si)
 
 	/* only refs/... are allowed */
 	if (!starts_with(name, "refs/") || check_refname_format(name + 5, 0)) {
-		rp_error("refusing to create funny ref '%s' remotely", name);
+		rp_error("refusing to update funny ref '%s' remotely", name);
 		ret = "funny refname";
 		goto out;
 	}
-- 
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