From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git cole give unexpected error message
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:36:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439FE7AD.6080602@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051213222829.GE22159@pasky.or.cz>
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.
>
But that would open up for an information disclosure. If someone's
hacking on a patch, please make it configurable at least.
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Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 9:36 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 [this message]
2005-12-14 11:41 ` Petr Baudis
2005-12-14 21:20 ` Sam Ravnborg
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