If there was a global default on a machine that was something other than
'master', these things would crash with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/hans/code/fdroid/server/fdroid", line 22, in <module>
fdroidserver.__main__.main()
File "/home/hans/code/fdroid/server/fdroidserver/__main__.py", line 230, in main
raise e
File "/home/hans/code/fdroid/server/fdroidserver/__main__.py", line 211, in main
mod.main()
File "/home/hans/code/fdroid/server/fdroidserver/deploy.py", line 833, in main
push_binary_transparency(BINARY_TRANSPARENCY_DIR,
File "/home/hans/code/fdroid/server/fdroidserver/deploy.py", line 705, in push_binary_transparency
local.pull('master')
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/git/remote.py", line 1045, in pull
res = self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress, kill_after_timeout=kill_after_timeout)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/git/remote.py", line 848, in _get_fetch_info_from_stderr
proc.wait(stderr=stderr_text)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/git/cmd.py", line 604, in wait
raise GitCommandError(remove_password_if_present(self.args), status, errstr)
git.exc.GitCommandError: Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(1)
cmdline: git pull -v -- local master
stderr: 'fatal: couldn't find remote ref master'