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

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2011, 11:24 UTC
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Heya,
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 01:22, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> So I think I prefer giving some more specific advice. Even if we don't
> mention "#!" lines explicitly, saying "This exists, but exec didn't
> work" is probably more helpful than pretending it's not there. It gives
> clueful people an idea of where to start looking for the problem.

Seconded. We should at least give the user enough information to figure out next steps. I like the advice from bad_interpreter_advice, although it might be phrased more as a suggestion "Try looking at ..."?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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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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