From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:24:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and 'command not found'
Message-ID: <7vpqlnmidy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110705231604.GC12085@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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)?