Re: [PATCH] credentials: unable to connect to cache daemon
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Jan 7, 2012, 14:55 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20120107145538.GC2461@sigill.intra.peff.net>
- In-Reply-To
- <20120107115434.GA8568@ecki.lan>
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 12:54:36PM +0100, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> Error out if we just spawned the daemon and yet we cannot connect.
Actually it was intentional not to produce an error. The cache helper is just a cache, so I consider it "best effort", and if it cannot cache a password, it's not the end of the world. Git should continue, anyway.
That being said, it's probably nicer to be informative in this case than not, since it is a configuration error the user probably would like to fix. And since the rewrite of the credential helper API, it's OK for helpers to return a failing exit code; git will just ignore it and keep going.
So I think this is a reasonable thing to do.
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> And always release the string buffer.
Oops, thanks.
-Peff