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Re: Obfuscated error message

From
BIBernie Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2009, 04:28 UTC
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<49B73E02.7040406@develer.com>
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<49B73D1A.4050605@codewiz.org>
Bernie Innocenti wrote:
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> A friend who uses Mercurial pointed this out as a reson why
> Git is evil:
> 
> rasky@lilax:~/src$ git clone git://www.develer.com/doesnt-exist
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rasky/src/doesnt-exist/.git/
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> Plus, the directory was not really there :-)
> 
> rasky@lilax:~/src$ hg clone hg://www.develer.com/doesnt-exist
> abort: repository hg://www.develer.com/doesnt-exist not found!
> 
> rasky@lilax:~/src$ svn co svn://www.develer.com/doesnt-exist
> svn: URL 'svn://www.develer.com/doesnt-exist' doesn't exist
> 
And another really nasty one:

trinity:~/foo$ git init Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/bernie/foo/.git/ trinity:~/foo$ git push fatal: 'origin': unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Both are with git HEAD as of today.
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  1. Bernie InnocentiMar 11, 2009
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