Re: [PATCH] Trivial fix: Display a more friendly message with git-shell.

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 21, 2009, 06:45 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqeiq0ssn7.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4AB71A76.5010509@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Every other use of git-shell is an error, and the current error message
> says exactly that, although in a very 31337 way (and, BTW, /me likes
> it :-)

Well, it's funny, but for a newcommer, trying "git shell" hoping to get, for example what "bzr shell" gives (an interactive shell with normal shell commands plus bzr ones without the 'bzr' prefix), it's quite frustrating to be almost insulted by the tool for being curious.

> If an naive user runs git-shell from the command line, then your new
> message will not be helpful because git-shell will accept only a very
> restricted set of commands.

Perhaps one more line saying what 'man git-shell' says in addition would help:

$ git-shell
git-shell: Restricted login shell for GIT-only SSH access
Usage: ...

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Matthieu Moy
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