# Re: [PATCH] make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors

1 messages from 2006-12-18 to 2006-12-18. Participants: Andy Parkins.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43644

## Andy Parkins, 2006-12-18 23:22

Subject: Re: [PATCH] make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors
Message-ID: <200612182322.15703.andyparkins@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200612182322.15703.andyparkins%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612181505320.18171@xanadu.home>

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On Monday 2006, December 18 20:16, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> -			die("unexpected EOF");
> +			die("for some reason the remote end hung up unexpectedly");

If we don't know the reason; then saying this makes it sound like we just 
couldn't be bothered to write the message.  How about just:

"The remote end hung up unexpectedly"

?

Andy

-- 
Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE

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