From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>, Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git: continue alias lookup on EACCES errors
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:45:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328194516.GD8982@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120328193909.GB29019@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> That's what the patch I posted earlier does. But it means we _also_
> report "permission denied" for inaccessible directories, which is
> needlessly confusing (and much more common, I would think).
So the message could say
$ nosuch
nosuch: Permission denied
hint: A permissions problem was encountered searching for or
hint: executing that command on the $PATH.
hint: Check your PATH setting and permissions.
or even
$ nosuch
nosuch: No such file or directory or permission denied
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-26 23:48 Bug? Bad permissions in $PATH breaks Git aliases James Pickens
2012-03-27 3:19 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 7:25 ` James Pickens
2012-03-27 15:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 17:59 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 18:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] run-command: propagate EACCES errors to parent Jeff King
2012-03-27 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 18:33 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 18:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] git: continue alias lookup on EACCES errors Jeff King
2012-03-27 19:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 4:30 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 17:48 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 18:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 18:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 19:39 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 19:45 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-03-28 20:18 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 20:37 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 20:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 20:52 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 20:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 20:51 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 21:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 21:25 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 21:30 ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-28 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 21:04 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 21:57 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 22:07 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 22:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-29 11:31 ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-29 17:20 ` Jeff King
2012-03-29 17:23 ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-28 19:38 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 19:40 ` Jeff King
2012-03-29 11:16 ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-29 17:15 ` Jeff King
2012-03-29 17:21 ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-27 6:14 ` Bug? Bad permissions in $PATH breaks Git aliases Johannes Sixt
2012-03-27 7:37 ` James Pickens
2012-03-27 15:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 17:48 ` James Pickens
2012-03-27 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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