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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2011, 17:24 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I'm not all that happy with the advice, though. It's pretty technical
> and specific. I'm not sure whether it would be helpful to most users or
> not.

Yeah, Michael's rewording makes it fuzzier by saying "exists, unable to execute, maybe git-%s is broken?".

I notice that we do not give the path to the file that implements the command. Perhaps we should walk the $PATH after we see this failure to pinpoint which one is to be inspected (I vaguely recall a weatherbaloon patch to a similar effect)?

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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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