Couldn't find GitHub repo from '.'

[zenspider]

given a branch configured like so:

[branch "mybranch"]
	remote = .
	merge = refs/heads/main

(and all of my branches are configured as such (and work fine with other tooling))

it appears that dulwich.porcelain.get_remote_repo comes back with ..

[nedbat]

I haven't seen that before. What sets remote = .? And what does it mean?

[zenspider]

I had to look this up myself:

   branch.<name>.remote
       ...

       Additionally, . (a period) is the current local repository
       (a dot-repository), see branch.<name>.merge's final note
       below.

   branch.<name>.merge
       ...

       If you wish to setup git pull so that it merges into <name>
       from another branch in the local repository, you can point
       branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the
       relative path setting . (a period) for
       branch.<name>.remote.

[zenspider]

Guessing... if the remote url doesn't resolve via branch.<name>.remote, you should fall back to (the python equivalent of):

git config "remote.$(git config remote.pushdefault).url"

[nedbat]

Could you share your full configuration? I don't seem to have git config remote.pushdefault defined.

[zenspider]

Here's some of it:

advice.skippedcherrypicks=true
core.bare=false
core.filemode=true
core.ignorecase=true
core.logallrefupdates=true
core.precomposeunicode=true
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.untrackedcache=true
feature.manyfiles=true
index.skiphash=false
merge.ours.driver=true
remote.origin.tagopt=--no-tags
remote.origin.url=git@github.com:zendesk/zendesk.git
remote.pushdefault=origin
taggrouping.groups=v:refs/tags/v(?<name>.*)
taggrouping.singles=

[nedbat]

If this is still happening, can you show the output of git remote -v, and possibly the full .git/config file? I don't understand how to find a GitHub url from what you have.

[zenspider]

It probably still is happening. I don't know. I wrote my own replacement.