From: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:06:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Mark remote `gc --auto` error messages
Message-ID: <146489800609.1944.4398103814754920753@typhoon.lan>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqinxrtmgi.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 at 21:33:33, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de> writes:
> 
> > When running `git push`, it might occur that error messages are
> > transferred from the server to the client. While most messages (those
> > explicitly sent on sideband 2) are prefixed with "remote:", it seems
> > that error messages printed during the automatic householding performed
> > by git-gc(1) are displayed without any additional decoration. Thus, such
> > messages can easily be misinterpreted as git-gc failing locally, see [1]
> > for an actual example of where that happened.
> 
> Sounds like a sensible goal to me.

What exactly are you referring to (you only quoted the introduction)?
Do you think we should fix the git-gc issue but keep the general
behavior of printing messages unaltered? Do you think it would be
worthwhile to make server messages distinguishable in general?