From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:35:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130410212833.GA5909@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Jeff King wrote: > Now that's the kind of whole-hearted endorsement I strive for. :) It's nothing wrong with your patch, the main problem is that there's not really a good place to point users at. > If you have better wording, I'm open to it. I do note that we don't > actually have a manpage for "git-remote-https", though we do for others. > Probably "man git-remote-helpers" is the most sensible thing to point > the user to. But I don't even think this is worthy of a big advice > message. It's a bug in the helper, it shouldn't really happen, and > giving the user a token they can use to report or google for the error > is probably good enough. Yeah, exactly. man git-remote-helpers is more a place for developers to read how to implement a git-remote-helper, not so much a place for users to read what they are, and/or how to use them. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier