From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:50:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Cryptic error messages?
Message-ID: <20090422205006.GE14146@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090422203251.GD14146@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:32:51PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

>   3. receive-pack notices that the unpacker failed, and spews
> 
>        error: unpack failed: unpacker exited with error code
> 
>      to stderr, in case unpack-objects didn't say anything.

Actually, this is not true. receive-pack actually passes the error code
back to send-pack, which prints it. I think it is doing so because we
get that status separate from the individual ref status. But if you look
at receive-pack, it doesn't even bother trying individual refs if the
unpack failed; every ref will just get the "unpack failed" message.

-Peff