From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: git cole give unexpected error message Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:36:45 +0100 Message-ID: <439FE7AD.6080602@op5.se> References: <20051213212820.GB5232@mars.ravnborg.org> <20051213222829.GE22159@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 14 10:43:06 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmT49-0007ka-7V for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:36:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932250AbVLNJgq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:36:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932254AbVLNJgq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:36:46 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:42155 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932250AbVLNJgq (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:36:46 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508536BD08 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:36:45 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051213222829.GE22159@pasky.or.cz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:20PM CET, I got a letter > where Sam Ravnborg 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. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231