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Unclear error message when remote rejects push

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Description

GitHub Desktop gives the whole git log when trying to push to a protected branch, instead of simply telling the user that it is not possible to push to that protected branch.

This issue may be related to #858

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.4

OS version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce

Use a repository where one of the branches is protected, for example master. You must be the owner of the repo, and enforce protection for the administrators as well
Checkout master, make any change, commit it, and try to push
Here is the error message you get :

Expected behavior: A better error message, at least without all the git log when it was trying to push

Actual behavior: Well, here is the screenshot ^^

Reproduces how often: Always

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

shiftkeycommented, Oct 17, 2017

It looks like it’s not being caught by our existing error handling. The work to do this is done here:

https://github.com/desktop/desktop/blob/8824fc0ca27e146ffa4fd7365c112d25221614a7/app/src/lib/git/core.ts#L180-L182

@agisilaos these error codes live in dugite - we map specific error messages to these codes in the library. Here’s the PR where we added a bunch of these messages, if you want to dig into that: https://github.com/desktop/dugite/pull/76.

@Raul6469 could you attach the raw output so can incorporate that into tests? It should be in the logs: Help | Show logs in Explorer.

1reaction

shiftkeycommented, Oct 30, 2017

I’ve been getting some fixes into dugite today - this has been added to https://github.com/desktop/dugite/pull/143 and will be fixed when I bump dugite in Desktop.

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