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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

           reply	other threads:[~2006-12-18 23:25 UTC|newest]

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