When I "git push" git now says "Create pull request for ...". Why?
I am making changes to a project in a branch that, so far, is known to no one else but me. However, starting recently, when I git push to this project, I now receive this as part of the response:
remote: Create pull request for <<my branch>>:
remote: https://bitbucket.org/...
I have no idea why Git is giving me this message, which I have never seen before.
Even if I delete the remote branch (with "git push origin :<<my branch>>" I now still get this message! (I successfully deleted the branch on the remote, but the message remains)
Answer
Note: These messages can be disabled now. See Jake's answer. Read along my answer for the technical explanation.
Everything that is prefixed by remote: has been sent by the receiving script1 on the server. Bitbucket probably wants to make it easier for you to create a pull request.
1 Example of such a post-receive hook using echo to send a message to the user as explained in the link above. It will be called once all the pushed data is completely saved on the server:
Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to git send-pack on the other end, so you can simply echo messages for the user.
On the server:
[email protected]:~/stackoverflow.git/hooks$ cat post-receive
#!/bin/bash
echo "This is an example of a git hook running at the server"
On the client:
$ git push [email protected]:stackoverflow.git master:master
Counting objects: 1, done.
Writing objects: 100% (1/1), 187 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: This is an example of a git hook running at the server
To [email protected]:stackoverflow.git
4751391..01882eb master -> master