From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git cole give unexpected error message
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:20:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051214212003.GA17495@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051213222829.GE22159@pasky.or.cz>
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:28:29PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:20PM CET, I got a letter
> where Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> said that...
> > cogito being a nice porcelain gives the git errormessage but manage to
> > clean up when the clone fails.
> > So also cogito would benefit from a more descriptive errormessage.
>
> Well, git clone can fail for many reasons and I don't think the "no such
> repository" one is completely overwhelming, so hinting that by Cogito
> could be quite confusing (theme of the day: usability ;-)).
>
> The real solution would be proper error reporting by the git daemon.
Which was my point too.
When using cogito it displyed the git error message so having git to
print a sensible error message would also benefit cogito.
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 21:28 git cole give unexpected error message Sam Ravnborg
2005-12-13 22:28 ` Petr Baudis
2005-12-14 9:36 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-12-14 11:41 ` Petr Baudis
2005-12-14 21:20 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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