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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] daemon: give friendlier error messages to clients
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:26:47 -0500
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:

>> "Access denied or no such repo" is much better.  (The "not exported"
>> nuance is not relevant in this context; you can safely ignore it.)
>
> To join this bike-shedding:
>
>   "Access denied or repository not available"
>
> or just
>
>   "Repository not available"

If such details about the message matter, then I have to say that
Sitaram's "access denied or no such repository" is as close to perfect
as I can imagine.  The admin who is eventually forwarded this message
will be reminded to check two things:

 - that access is not denied, neither globally, using a whitelist,
   using filesystem permissions, nor by leaving out
   git-daemon-export-ok, and

 - that such a repo exists at all, and there was not a typo in the
   address.