This has never worked, since it's inception the code simply skips all
the refs, essentially telling fast-export to do nothing.

Let's at least tell the user what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt | 4 ++--
 t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh           | 6 +++---
 transport-helper.c                  | 5 +++--
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt 
b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
index ba7240c..4d26e37 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ Miscellaneous capabilities
        For remote helpers that implement 'import' or 'export', this capability
        allows the refs to be constrained to a private namespace, instead of
        writing to refs/heads or refs/remotes directly.
-       It is recommended that all importers providing the 'import' or 'export'
-       capabilities use this.
+       It is recommended that all importers providing the 'import'
+       capability use this. It's mandatory for 'export'.
 +
 A helper advertising the capability
 `refspec refs/heads/*:refs/svn/origin/branches/*`
diff --git a/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh b/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh
index cd1873c..3eeb309 100755
--- a/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh
+++ b/t/t5801-remote-helpers.sh
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ test_expect_success 'pulling without refspecs' '
        compare_refs local2 HEAD server HEAD
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'pushing without refspecs' '
+test_expect_success 'pushing without refspecs' '
        test_when_finished "(cd local2 && git reset --hard origin)" &&
        (cd local2 &&
        echo content >>file &&
        git commit -a -m ten &&
-       GIT_REMOTE_TESTGIT_REFSPEC="" git push) &&
-       compare_refs local2 HEAD server HEAD
+       GIT_REMOTE_TESTGIT_REFSPEC="" test_must_fail git push 2> ../error) &&
+       grep "remote-helper doesn.t support push; refspec needed" error
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'pulling without marks' '
diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/transport-helper.c
index cea787c..4d98567 100644
--- a/transport-helper.c
+++ b/transport-helper.c
@@ -785,6 +785,9 @@ static int push_refs_with_export(struct transport 
*transport,
        struct string_list revlist_args = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
        struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 
+       if (!data->refspecs)
+               die("remote-helper doesn't support push; refspec needed");
+
        helper = get_helper(transport);
 
        write_constant(helper->in, "export\n");
@@ -795,8 +798,6 @@ static int push_refs_with_export(struct transport 
*transport,
                char *private;
                unsigned char sha1[20];
 
-               if (!data->refspecs)
-                       continue;
                private = apply_refspecs(data->refspecs, data->refspec_nr, 
ref->name);
                if (private && !get_sha1(private, sha1)) {
                        strbuf_addf(&buf, "^%s", private);
-- 
1.8.2.1.679.g509521a

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