From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:14:58 GMT
Subject: Re: git describe origin ?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707071812570.4093@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0707070953s33ca0d1aw879fd3d1a986aaeb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Francis Moreau wrote:

> On 7/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Francis Moreau wrote:
> > 
> > > I also played with git remote and did something silly like:
> > > $ git remote add bob /tmp/dummy # dummy does not exist
> > > $ git remote show bob
> > > fatal: '/tmp/dummy': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> > > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> > > ls-remote --heads /tmp/dummy: command returned error: 1
> > >
> > > Maybe the output could be improved to be more readable.
> > 
> > The first line is very helpful IMHO:
> > 
> >         fatal: '/tmp/dummy': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> > 
> 
> yep but the 2 others are just noise, aren't they ?

There are actually four programs involved, it seems. You get an error 
message from all except "git remote".

> BTW, shouldn't "git remote add" have complained at first ?

No. Sometimes the URL is not yet available, yet, you want to add it for 
later reference (think bundles). Sometimes you are simply offline.

Ciao,
Dscho