From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:28:29 GMT Subject: Re: git cole give unexpected error message 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 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.