git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 18, 2006, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID
<200612182322.15703.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0612181505320.18171@xanadu.home>
On Monday 2006, December 18 20:16, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> -			die("unexpected EOF");
> +			die("for some reason the remote end hung up unexpectedly");

If we don't know the reason; then saying this makes it sound like we just couldn't be bothered to write the message. How about just:

"The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
?
Andy
-- 
Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE
Message 1 of 1 in “Re: [PATCH] make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors”
  1. Andy ParkinsDec 18, 2006

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.