Re: git-clone: Unobvious error messages when update-server-info has not been run

Hi Jeff,

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:43:59AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote:

quoted

I was just trying to clone a repository using http but missed to run
git-update-server-info on the server side. git-clone aborted with the
following error messages:

  % git clone http://some/repo.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /path/repo/.git/
  cat: /path/repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master: No such file or directory
  cd: 482: can't cd to /path/repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin
  fatal: : not a valid SHA1
  fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

It's kind of hard to guess where the error comes from in this case (I blamed
Git at first). Is there some way to improve the error message in a case like
this?

git-clone is supposed to detect this condition, but there was a bug in
the error checking code. Can you confirm that this patch fixes it?

Yes, this patch seems to fix it. Thanks.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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