bug#41764: `make authenticate` fails to find the keyring branch

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> I just tried pushing for the first time since installing the new
> pre-push hook that runs `make authenticate`.
>
> This failed with the following error:
>
> Git error: cannot locate remote-tracking branch 'keyring'
>
> However, `git branch --all` includes "remotes/origin/keyring".
>
> After I did `git checkout origin/keyring`, it worked.

Right, since commit 512b9e2da26968ebafdd47f701edd8fc3936d3e8, you have
to have a local ‘keyring’ branch.

> Let's update the manual section Commit Access with the recommended way
> to make this branch accessible to `make authenticate`. Maybe it should
> even do it automatically?

I don’t think it can do it automatically because it cannot guess what
the remote is called (Tobias reported an issue earlier because
“origin/keyring” was hard-coded and Tobias didn’t have an “origin”
remote.)

Regarding documentation, do you think it would suffice to say that one
needs to have a local ‘keyring’ branch tracking upstream’s?

Thanks,
Ludo’.