From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:56:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] send-pack: assign remote errors to each ref
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In-Reply-To: <7vbq9xpprg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>>   2. the status parsing is not foolproof. We get a line like
>>
>>          ng refs/heads/master arbitrary msg
>>
>>      which cannot be parsed unambiguously...
>
> Is it really "arbitrary msg", or just a fixed set of strings?

This was a wrong thing to say.  We may add new error message in
later versions of receive-pack and we want to make it compatible
with today's send-pack with minimum hassle.  So that is a
problem.  But...

> Also I think we can rely on the order report-status extension
> reports the per-ref result.  It gives back the information the
> same order send-pack side supplies the head information, no?

I was hoping that this can solve both of the problems you
cited...