From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:22:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612182322.15703.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612181505320.18171@xanadu.home>
On Monday 2006, December 18 20:16, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> - die("unexpected EOF");
> + die("for some reason the remote end hung up unexpectedly");
If we don't know the reason; then saying this makes it sound like we just
couldn't be bothered to write the message. How about just:
"The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
?
Andy
--
Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE
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