From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:45:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] make remote hangup warnings more friendly
Message-ID: <20090305104506.GB17196@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090304190452.GJ14365@spearce.org>

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Hmm.  It would be nice to clean up these messages, but I
> think the better way to do it is...
>  
> >      I think this would be improved somewhat with stderr processing to:
> > 
> >        remote: sh: bogus: command not found
> 
> ... because then we can have positive proof that the remote said
> something to the user, and we tagged it as being from the remote
> side, just like we do with progress data in sideband, and then the
> user can work from that information.  Any local side errors are
> very likely caused by the remote errors, so we shouldn't bother
> displaying them.

OK. I was hoping to avoid that because it's more work, but I think it is
a better path in the long run. I'll add it to do my todo list. Unless
you want to redeem yourself by working on it first. ;)

-Peff