Re: git cole give unexpected error message

Dear diary, on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:36:45AM CET, I got a letter
where Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] said that...

Petr Baudis wrote:

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Dear diary, on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:28:20PM CET, I got a letter
where Sam Ravnborg [off-list ref] said that...

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cogito being a nice porcelain gives the git errormessage but manage to
clean up when the clone fails.
So also cogito would benefit from a more descriptive errormessage.

Well, git clone can fail for many reasons and I don't think the "no such
repository" one is completely overwhelming, so hinting that by Cogito
could be quite confusing (theme of the day: usability ;-)).

The real solution would be proper error reporting by the git daemon.

But that would open up for an information disclosure. If someone's 
hacking on a patch, please make it configurable at least.

When it breaks at this stage, it's either some bad internal error (I
guess memory allocation error might do this), permission problem, or
repository not being found. We might then report a more generic error
message "Repository not found or access denied.".

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