From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH] make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:22:05 +0000 Message-ID: <200612182322.15703.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Junio C Hamano Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=RbGjMccQKbxgUoL0ZO9y1stTtC46RvoJrcQIQGcr9JIBvOb7KszO0OGvfMfyVenyE10dZA6lHM/lraDVwmZhHcHXOyD5Eg8D2avGP8d7e/fPPrQbc10ed5xUE0IFpKgwdlE5KRL4x1aQj2eNSzgZejDWFlcRF37i/lx3+W+IRiE= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwRr2-0004Ss-04 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:25:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754758AbWLRXZE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:25:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754757AbWLRXZE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:25:04 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:10390 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754758AbWLRXZD (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:25:03 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1638983uga for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.216.1 with SMTP id o1mr5994040ugg.1166484301303; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from grissom.internal.parkins.org.uk ( [84.201.153.164]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m1sm9877116uge.2006.12.18.15.25.00; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:25:00 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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