[BUG] clone: regression in error messages in master

Hi,

So this should explain the problem:

  # using v1.8.3.1
  $ git clone https://google.com
  Cloning into 'google.com'...
  fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found

  # using master
  $ git clone https://google.com
  Cloning into 'google.com'...
  fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found
  fatal: Reading from helper 'git-remote-https' failed

To figure out where the regression was coming from, I ran a bisect with this script:

  #!/bin/sh
  make clean &&
  make -j 8 &&
  cd t &&
  sh -v -i clone-message.sh

where clone-message.sh is:

  test_description=clone-message

  . ./test-lib.sh

  test_expect_success setup '

  	rm -fr .git &&
  	test_create_repo src &&
  	(
  		cd src &&
  		>file &&
  		git add file &&
  		git commit -m initial &&
  		echo 1 >file &&
  		git add file &&
  		git commit -m updated
  	)

  '

  test_expect_success 'clone invalid URL' '
  	rm -fr dst &&
  	test_must_fail git clone https://google.com 2>msg &&
  	test_i18ngrep "repository .* not found" msg &&
  	! test_i18ngrep "git-remote-https" msg
  '

  test_done

The bisect pointed me to: 81d340d4 (transport-helper: report errors properly, 2013-04-10).

  $ git clone https://google.com
  Cloning into 'google.com'...
  fatal: https://google.com/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack not
found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
  fatal: Reading from remote helper failed

What?! Okay, the last "Reading from remote helper failed" was introduced by this commit; my clone-message.sh has a bug. So I commented out the first test_i18ngrep and ran it. Result: c096955 (transport-helper: mention helper name when it dies, 2013-04-10). This is not the real culprit: it just changed the message string that 81d340d4 originally introduced.

Okay, so am I reporting a valid bug? Going through remote-curl, I can see that it dies in remote-curl.c:213 if HTTP_TARGET_MISSING. If that is the case, what is the point of printing the second message about the remote helper program not being present?

Thanks.