Re: Vendor import push failed: src refspec ... does not match any

On 2023-01-09 10:31:26 (+0800), Gregory Shapiro wrote:

> I'm doing my first vendor import since the move to git.  Following the
> instructions in section 5.4 of committers-guide/#git-primer, I hit a
> roadblock trying to push the new version to the vendor branch.  My
> actions are below, including the failure to push at the end.  What
> should have I have done differently?
>
>
>> cd src/freebsd/main
>> git remote -v
> freebsd https://git.freebsd.org/src.git (fetch)
> freebsd git@gitrepo.freebsd.org:src.git (push)
>> git pull
> Already up to date.
>> git status
> On branch main
> Your branch is up to date with 'freebsd/main'.
>
> nothing to commit, working tree clean
>> git worktree add ../vendor/sendmail freebsd/vendor/sendmail
> Preparing worktree (detached HEAD 0694dcb04b81)
> HEAD is now at 0694dcb04b81 Bring in fix from upstream that allows 
> libsm to compile against FreeBSD 13
>> cd ../vendor/sendmail
>> rsync --archive --delete --exclude=.git ~/Work/fb/sendmail-8.17.1/ ./
>> git add -A
>>
> ...
> (checked git status, git diff, all looked good at first, though after
>  the error, I see that git status reports, "Not currently on any
>  branch.")
> ...
>> git commit -m "Vendor import of sendmail 8.17.1"
> [detached HEAD e2db8b1cc34e] Vendor import of sendmail 8.17.1
>  188 files changed, 13741 insertions(+), 8635 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 cf/feature/check_other.m4
>  create mode 100644 cf/feature/sts.m4
>  mode change 100644 => 100755 contrib/doublebounce.pl
>  mode change 100644 => 100755 contrib/link_hash.sh
>  mode change 100644 => 100755 contrib/re-mqueue.pl
>  create mode 100644 devtools/OS/Darwin.19.x
>  create mode 100644 devtools/OS/Darwin.20.x
>  create mode 100644 include/sm/ixlen.h
>  create mode 100644 libsm/ilenx.c
>  create mode 100644 libsm/lowercase.c
>  create mode 100644 libsm/strcaseeq.c
>  create mode 100644 libsm/t-ixlen.c
>  create mode 100755 libsm/t-ixlen.sh
>  create mode 100644 libsm/t-str2prt.c
>  create mode 100644 libsm/t-streq.c
>  create mode 100755 libsm/t-streq.sh
>  create mode 100644 libsm/utf8_valid.c
>  create mode 100644 libsm/uxtext_unquote.c
>  create mode 100644 libsm/xleni.c
>  create mode 100755 libsmutil/t-lockfile-0.sh
>  create mode 100644 libsmutil/t-lockfile.c
>  create mode 100755 libsmutil/t-maplock-0.sh
>> git tag -a -m "Tag sendmail 8.17.1" vendor/sendmail/8.17.1
>> git push --dry-run --follow-tags freebsd vendor/sendmail
> error: src refspec vendor/sendmail does not match any
> error: failed to push some refs to 'gitrepo.freebsd.org:src.git'
>
> Note that the output to git commit above starts with "[detached HEAD
> ...]" which, along with the git status issue described above, looks
> suspicious.

You should create a branch in your worktree.  This will probably do what 
you want:

git checkout -b vendor/sendmail

I believe this will put the HEAD of that branch on the commit you made, 
but this is untested.

git reset e2db8b1cc34e

If that doesn't work, simply do the rsync; git add; git commit again.  
It's not worth fighting with git over. :)

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Alternative Enterprises