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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:03:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D1D32C.1070900@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910702112053q2c196ddcr970a062281d332b7@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 2/11/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > jonsmirl@jonsmirl:/extra$ git clone
>> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gt/linville/wireless-dev.git
>> > Initialized empty Git repository in /extra/wireless-dev/.git/
>> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>> Are you sure the above is ".../linux/kernel/gt/linville/..."?
> 
> You're right it should be git instead of gt, somewhere in my copying
> strings around I lost the 'i' and wasn't paying attention.  That's not
> a very good error message: "fatal: The remote end hung up
> unexpectedly" for a missing repository.
> 

It's necessary for security reasons that the git daemon doesn't tell you
*why* it failed though, otherwise attackers could use the git daemon to
browse the existance of files and directories on the remote end.

It could be nice to add "Are you sure $path_to_repo hosts a repository?"
to the message though, which would toss any spelling errors in the users'
face.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-13 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-11 19:53 Efficiency of initial clone from server Jon Smirl
2007-02-11 22:53 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-11 23:25   ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-11 23:51     ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  1:38     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12  2:15       ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  3:55         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12  4:49           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12 16:42             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12  4:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12  4:29         ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  4:33           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12  4:53             ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  5:01               ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  5:11                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12  5:17                   ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 15:20                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-12 19:35                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-12 20:53                         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12 21:33                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-13  0:51                           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-12  5:30                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12  5:55                   ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12  6:08                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-12 15:24                       ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 16:40                         ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 17:04                           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-12 11:45                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-12 14:31                     ` Jon Smirl
2007-02-12 17:06                       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-13 15:03               ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-02-11 23:29   ` Jon Smirl

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