From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:36:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git cole give unexpected error message
Message-ID: <439FE7AD.6080602@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20051213222829.GE22159@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:20PM CET, I got a letter
> where Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> said that...
> 
>>cogito being a nice porcelain gives the git errormessage but manage to
>>clean up when the clone fails.
>>So also cogito would benefit from a more descriptive errormessage.
> 
> 
> Well, git clone can fail for many reasons and I don't think the "no such
> repository" one is completely overwhelming, so hinting that by Cogito
> could be quite confusing (theme of the day: usability ;-)).
> 
> The real solution would be proper error reporting by the git daemon.
> 

But that would open up for an information disclosure. If someone's 
hacking on a patch, please make it configurable at least.

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