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Re: git cole give unexpected error message

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Dec 13, 2005, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20051213222829.GE22159@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<20051213212820.GB5232@mars.ravnborg.org>

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.
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