On 2023/02/04 17:34:21 +0100, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:
> With the new 'got fetch' default behaviour it can be a bit
> unclear why the fetch operation is failing:
> 
> $ got fetch
> got-fetch-pack: could not find any branches to fetch
> got: could not find any branches to fetch
> $ got branch
> fetch-verify
> 
> 
> With the patch below:
> 
> $ got fetch
> got-fetch-pack: branch "refs/heads/fetch-verify" not found on server: could not find any branches to fetch
> got: could not find any branches to fetch
> $
> 
> ok?

the error message becomes quite long but surely better than before.

ok op@

> diff /home/stsp/src/got
> commit - 4ba151fd9e5cc3e537a47f063a95c894a6c5bed7
> path + /home/stsp/src/got
> blob - 77ba914fb971f5e412b57bd1633bda6ee0e1f26d
> file + libexec/got-fetch-pack/got-fetch-pack.c
> --- libexec/got-fetch-pack/got-fetch-pack.c
> +++ libexec/got-fetch-pack/got-fetch-pack.c
> @@ -484,6 +484,24 @@ fetch_pack(int fd, int packfd, uint8_t *pack_sha1,
>  
>  	/* Abort if we haven't found any branch to fetch. */
>  	if (!found_branch) {
> +		struct got_pathlist_entry *pe;
> +
> +		pe = TAILQ_FIRST(wanted_branches);
> +		if (pe) {
> +			err = got_error_fmt(GOT_ERR_FETCH_NO_BRANCH,
> +			    "branch \"%s\" not found on server",
> +			    pe->path);
> +			goto done;
> +		}
> +
> +		pe = TAILQ_FIRST(wanted_refs);
> +		if (pe) {
> +			err = got_error_fmt(GOT_ERR_FETCH_NO_BRANCH,
> +			    "reference \"%s\" not found on server",
> +			    pe->path);
> +			goto done;
> +		}
> +
>  		err = got_error(GOT_ERR_FETCH_NO_BRANCH);
>  		goto done;
>  	}