can't push to binutils-gdb, git-hooks rejecting commits

Hi,

I'm trying to push a patch to master, but it's getting rejected by the
server-side git hooks.  Anyone else seeing the same?  See below.

Repeating that big "git rev-list" command below locally shows:

  fatal: bad revision '^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr17709'

That branch doesn't appear to exist anymore.   Sounds like the hooks
need to run "git remote prune origin" on their clone?  Does that make
sense?

Joel, any ideas?

$ git push ssh://[email protected]/git/binutils-gdb.git HEAD:master
Counting objects: 6, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 1.19 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 6 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Traceback (most recent call last):
remote:   File "hooks/update.py", line 69, in <module>
remote:     check_update(args.ref_name, args.old_rev, args.new_rev)
remote:   File "hooks/update.py", line 62, in check_update
remote:     update_cls.validate()
remote:   File "/sourceware1/projects/src-home/git-hooks/hooks/updates/__init__.py", line 123, in validate
remote:     self.__check_max_commit_emails()
remote:   File "/sourceware1/projects/src-home/git-hooks/hooks/updates/__init__.py", line 653, in __check_max_commit_emails
remote:     self.__set_send_email_p_attr(self.added_commits)
remote:   File "/sourceware1/projects/src-home/git-hooks/hooks/updates/__init__.py", line 713, in __set_send_email_p_attr
remote:     _split_lines=True)
remote:   File "/sourceware1/projects/src-home/git-hooks/hooks/git.py", line 132, in f
remote:     return git_run(command, *args, **kwargs)
remote:   File "/sourceware1/projects/src-home/git-hooks/hooks/git.py", line 104, in git_run
remote:     output)
remote: git.CalledProcessError: Command 'git rev-list 0d999a6ef0f98b22430d70951408869864c979e0 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr17709 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/compressed ^refs/heads/users/ibm/binutils-2_25 ^refs/heads/users/ibm/binutils-2_24 ^refs/heads/users/palves/cxx-eliminate-cleanups ^refs/heads/users/hjl/mpx/plt2 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/branch ^refs/heads/users/arnez/lk3 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/dynobj ^refs/heads/users/apinski/gdb-ilp32-gdbserver ^refs/heads/users/ccoutant/two-level-line-150331 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/version ^refs/heads/users/bheckel/fortran-vla-strings ^refs/heads/users/palves/thread_apply-v2 ^refs/heads/users/arnez/lk ^refs/heads/users/palves/whatis ^refs/heads/users/palves/cxx-target_ops ^refs/heads/users/hjl/output ^refs/heads/users/hjl/secondary/master ^refs/heads/users/hjl/mpx/pltext8 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr12639 ^refs/heads/users/palves/core-prstatus-rework ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr18599 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/got ^refs/heads/users/mwk/s390-relro-old ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr18028 ^refs/heads/users/palves/cxx-gdb_exceptions ^refs/heads/users/simark/user-selection-rfc ^refs/heads/users/hjl/link_assignments ^refs/heads/users/hl/pr21679 ^refs/heads/users/pinskia/gdb-aarch64-ilp32 ^refs/heads/users/rth/x86-seg ^refs/heads/users/hjl/gold-test ^refs/heads/users/simark/ptid-in-fetch-store-regs ^refs/heads/users/bheckel/fortran-oop-extend-type ^refs/heads/users/palves/dwarf2_per_objfile ^refs/heads/users/palves/fix-double-free ^refs/heads/users/hjl/noisa ^refs/heads/users/ccoutant/experimental-relr ^refs/heads/users/palves/interrupt-while-step-over-v1 ^refs/heads/users/mwk/s390-relro-rel ^refs/heads/users/palves/jit-speedup ^refs/heads/users/ARM/embedded-gdb-7.10-branch ^refs/heads/users/hjl/mpx/plt32 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/mpx/pltext16 ^refs/heads/users/aoliva/SFN ^refs/heads/users/alahay01/targetregcache ^refs/heads/users/palves/dwarf5-regression-for-jan ^refs/heads/users/hjl/compress ^refs/heads/users/hjl/lto-mixed/master ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr21884 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/linux/master ^refs/heads/users/ccoutant/two-level-line-tables ^refs/heads/users/palves/line_header_leak ^refs/heads/users/qiyao/target-desc-2 ^refs/heads/users/qiyao/target-desc-3 ^refs/heads/users/ARM/sve ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr20276 ^refs/heads/users/palves/cxx-enum-flags ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr17878 ^refs/heads/users/ppalka/readline-7.0-update ^refs/heads/users/hjl/cet/master ^refs/heads/users/palves/amd64-tdesc ^refs/heads/users/bheckel/fortran-entry-point-nested-subroutines ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr19818 ^refs/heads/users/palves/Wwrite-strings-v1.5 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/gpoff ^refs/heads/users/ppalka/readline-6.3-update ^refs/heads/users/hjl/sharable ^refs/heads/users/palves/fix-objc-tests ^refs/heads/users/hjl/property ^refs/heads/users/keiths/intelligent-breakpoint_re_set ^refs/heads/users/mwk/s390-relro ^refs/heads/users/hjl/tls ^refs/heads/users/hjl/gdb-8.0-branch ^refs/heads/users/hjl/binutils-2_25-branch ^refs/heads/users/palves/gdbserver-extract-unsigned-integer ^refs/heads/users/pmuldoon/c++compile ^refs/heads/users/ARM/embedded-binutils-2_26-branch ^refs/heads/users/gentoo/2.27 ^refs/heads/users/gentoo/2.28 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/relax-plt ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr21964 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr21562 ^refs/heads/users/dje/google-7.10 ^refs/heads/users/palves/cxx-breakpoint-improvements ^refs/heads/users/keiths/c++compile-submit ^refs/heads/users/hjl/mmap/write ^refs/heads/users/palves/fix-var-update-for-registers ^refs/heads/users/hjl/cache ^refs/heads/users/ccoutant/gold-record ^refs/heads/users/hjl/relocs ^refs/heads/users/mmetzger/record-goto-mi ^refs/heads/users/palves/cxx-dwarf2read ^refs/heads/users/hjl/indbr ^refs/heads/users/palves/interrupt-while-step-over ^refs/heads/users/hjl/old-lto-mixed ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr19827/binutils-2_26-branch ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr19553/binutils-2_26-branch ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr21903 ^refs/heads/users/hjl/linux/track ^refs/heads/users/palves/function_view ^refs/heads/users/hjl/linux/applied ^refs/heads/users/hjl/mpx/master ^refs/heads/users/palves/cp-linespec-for-keiths ^refs/heads/users/hjl/pr20882 ^refs/heads/users/bheckel/fortran-strides ^refs/heads/users/hjl/plt ^refs/heads/users/pkoning/multi-target ^329d5e7e56f852dcf9956683be4345c165d277db' returned non-zero exit status 128
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
To ssh://[email protected]/git/binutils-gdb.git
 ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> master (hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://[email protected]/git/binutils-gdb.git'

Thanks,
Pedro Alves