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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
	"Reid Woodbury Jr." <reidw@rawsound.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git 2.3.4, ssh: Could not resolve hostname
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:05:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150403210547.GA10380@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy4m9exj0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 02:01:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> writes:
> 
> > This makes my think that it is
> > a) non-standard to have the extra colon
> > b) The error message could be better
> 
> For that, perhaps
> 
> -ssh: Could not resolve hostname xxxx:: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
> +ssh: Could not resolve hostname "xxxx:": nodename nor servname provided, or not known
> 
> would be something we would want to do, no matter what other fixes
> we would apply.

That message comes from the ssh client. So the "we" here would have to submit a
patch to OpenSSH".

The easier way to diagnose inside git is to set GIT_TRACE, which makes
it more clear:

  $ GIT_TRACE=1 git clone ssh://bogosity:/repo.git
  ...
  17:05:00.734019 run-command.c:347       trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'bogosity:' 'git-upload-pack '\''/repo.git'\'''

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-03 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-02 17:18 git 2.3.4, ssh: Could not resolve hostname Reid Woodbury Jr.
2015-04-02 18:09 ` Jeff King
2015-04-02 18:58   ` Reid Woodbury Jr.
2015-04-02 19:14     ` Jeff King
2015-04-02 19:24       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-02 19:31         ` Reid Woodbury Jr.
2015-04-02 19:35           ` Jeff King
2015-04-02 20:06             ` Reid Woodbury Jr.
2015-04-02 20:15               ` Thomas Schneider
2015-04-03  0:02             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-04-03  1:30               ` brian m. carlson
2015-04-03 21:01               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-03 21:05                 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-04-03 21:32               ` Kyle J. McKay
2015-04-04  0:19                 ` Reid Woodbury Jr.
2015-04-04  7:21                   ` Torsten Bögershausen

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