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From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use exit 1 instead of die when req_Root fails.
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:08:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071017190822.GD9041@planck.djpig.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0710170739i179e7389k1e44f70086ca88be@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:39:52AM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> >  made it into your repo.  It fixes test failures on my machine that have
> >  been plauging me for months.
> 
> That sounds more like a reason to fix the test.  "die" is the perl
> standard way of
> reporting an error.  It will print the error message on stderr, not on
> stdout like
> your version does.

Please note that git-cvsserver is special in that its output will never
be displayed directly to the user but is always interpreted first by
the client. So print "E something" is acutally in some cases more
correct than print STDERR something.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
www: http://www.djpig.de/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17 14:05 [PATCH] Use exit 1 instead of die when req_Root fails Brian Gernhardt
2007-10-17 14:39 ` Morten Welinder
2007-10-17 15:16   ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-10-17 15:39     ` Lars Hjemli
2007-10-17 18:40       ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-10-17 19:27         ` Lars Hjemli
2007-10-18 18:54     ` Jan Hudec
2007-10-17 19:08   ` Frank Lichtenheld [this message]
2007-10-17 19:06 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-17 19:15   ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-10-18  5:04     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-18 13:33       ` Frank Lichtenheld
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-04  1:19 git-cvsserver test failures (still) Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-04  1:43 ` [PATCH] Use exit 1 instead of die when req_Root fails Brian Gernhardt

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