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Re: Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and 'command not found'

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 6, 2011, 17:58 UTC
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<20110706175803.GB17978@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<4E144B55.8020907@elegosoft.com>
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:47:33PM +0200, Michael Schubert wrote:
> Like this? I've replaced "Check the #!-line of the git-%s script." with
> "Maybe git-%s is broken?" to be less technical and specific..

Yeah, looks good to me (unless somebody wants to do something more elaborate to catch other exec problems, but I personally don't think it's worth the effort).

-Peff
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  1. Alex VandiverJul 5, 2011
  2. Michael SchubertJul 5, 2011
  3. Jeff KingJul 5, 2011
  4. Jeff KingJul 5, 2011
  5. Sverre RabbelierJul 6, 2011
  6. Michael SchubertJul 6, 2011
  7. Jeff KingJul 6, 2011
  8. Jeff KingJul 6, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2011
  10. Michael SchubertJul 8, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2011
  13. Jeff KingJul 6, 2011

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