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Re: [PATCH] Git.pm: better error message

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 14, 2010, 09:20 UTC
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<20100614092024.GA7854@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:19:16AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> Come to think of it, it probably makes sense: -d probably depends on stat
> to get the information about the file, and that fails harder when the
> file in question doesn't exists.
Yeah, that makes sense to me.
> I guess the best would be to put the directory name in the error message
> (always interesting information), and keep $! in case it was set by an
> harder error.
Agreed.
-Peff
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