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Error given when a push fails due to hook failure is not useful

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Reproduce the failure with a pre-push hook using gh stack sync, gh stack push, and gh stack submit, then inspect the push error handling for those commands. Preserve and surface the hook's useful error output instead of only reporting that refs failed; verify the resulting messages against a regular git push.

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Description

I have a pre-push hook setup on my local repos.

When I try gh stack sync it results in this:
Pushing 3 branches to origin...
⚠ Push failed — branches may need force push after rebase

When I try gh stack push it results in this:
Pushing 3 branches to origin...
✗ failed to push: failed to run git: error: failed to push some refs to 'github.com:<my_repo>'

When I try gh stack submit it results in this:
Pushing to origin...
✗ failed to push <my_branch>: failed to run git: error: failed to push some refs to 'github.com:<my_repo>'

Eventually I was able to guess it was my pre-push hook and tried a regular push and it told me what the error was immediately.

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