Give error when no remote is configured

When there's no explicitly-named remote, we use the remote specified
for the current branch, which in turn defaults to "origin". But it
this case should require the remote to actually be configured, and not
fall back to the path "origin".

Possibly, the config file's "remote = something" should require the
something to be a configured remote instead of a bare repository URL,
but we actually test with a bare repository URL.

In fetch, we were giving the sensible error message when coming up
with a URL failed, but this wasn't actually reachable, so move that
error up and use it when appropriate.

In push, we need a new error message, because the old one (formerly
unreachable without a lot of help) used the repo name, which was NULL.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index d7079c6dd..199830ea9 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static int branches_nr;
 
 static struct branch *current_branch;
 static const char *default_remote_name;
+static int explicit_default_remote_name;
 
 static struct rewrite **rewrite;
 static int rewrite_alloc;
@@ -104,6 +105,16 @@ static void add_url_alias(struct remote *remote, const char *url)
 	add_url(remote, alias_url(url));
 }
 
+static struct remote *get_remote_by_name(const char *name)
+{
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < remotes_nr; i++) {
+		if (!strcmp(name, remotes[i]->name))
+			return remotes[i];
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 static struct remote *make_remote(const char *name, int len)
 {
 	struct remote *ret;
@@ -330,8 +341,10 @@ static int handle_config(const char *key, const char *value, void *cb)
 			if (!value)
 				return config_error_nonbool(key);
 			branch->remote_name = xstrdup(value);
-			if (branch == current_branch)
+			if (branch == current_branch) {
 				default_remote_name = branch->remote_name;
+				explicit_default_remote_name = 1;
+			}
 		} else if (!strcmp(subkey, ".merge")) {
 			if (!value)
 				return config_error_nonbool(key);
@@ -643,11 +656,22 @@ static int valid_remote_nick(const char *name)
 struct remote *remote_get(const char *name)
 {
 	struct remote *ret;
+	int name_given = 0;
 
 	read_config();
-	if (!name)
+	if (name)
+		name_given = 1;
+	else {
 		name = default_remote_name;
-	ret = make_remote(name, 0);
+		name_given = explicit_default_remote_name;
+	}
+	if (name_given)
+		ret = make_remote(name, 0);
+	else {
+		ret = get_remote_by_name(name);
+		if (!ret)
+			return NULL;
+	}
 	if (valid_remote_nick(name)) {
 		if (!ret->url)
 			read_remotes_file(ret);