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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:35:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdFq_ju7d59jm+d+cmM2T8zR7WjLEVf=HDGa-3Uo3GLbnqh6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130410212833.GA5909@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Now that's the kind of whole-hearted endorsement I strive for. :)

It's nothing wrong with your patch, the main problem is that there's
not really a good place to point users at.

> If you have better wording, I'm open to it. I do note that we don't
> actually have a manpage for "git-remote-https", though we do for others.
> Probably "man git-remote-helpers" is the most sensible thing to point
> the user to. But I don't even think this is worthy of a big advice
> message. It's a bug in the helper, it shouldn't really happen, and
> giving the user a token they can use to report or google for the error
> is probably good enough.

Yeah, exactly. man git-remote-helpers is more a place for developers
to read how to implement a git-remote-helper, not so much a place for
users to read what they are, and/or how to use them.

--
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-10 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-08 14:40 [PATCH v4] transport-helper: report errors properly Felipe Contreras
2013-04-08 18:20 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-04-08 19:30   ` Jeff King
2013-04-08 19:28 ` Jeff King
2013-04-09 21:38 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-09 21:50   ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 21:13 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] reporting transport helper errors Jeff King
2013-04-10 21:15   ` [PATCH 1/2] transport-helper: report errors properly Jeff King
2013-04-10 21:22     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-04-10 21:46     ` Eric Sunshine
2013-04-11 13:22     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-11 16:18       ` Jeff King
2013-04-11 16:49         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-11 16:59           ` Jeff King
2013-04-11 17:57             ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-11 18:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-11 21:35                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-11 18:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-11 21:21         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-11 23:05           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-13  5:42             ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-13  6:00               ` Jeff King
2013-04-13  6:43                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-14  5:23                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-14 15:54                     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-10 21:16   ` [PATCH 2/2] transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies Jeff King
2013-04-10 21:23     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-04-10 21:28       ` Jeff King
2013-04-10 21:35         ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2013-04-10 23:13 ` [PATCH v4] transport-helper: report errors properly rh
2013-04-11  3:39   ` Jeff King

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