Thread (2 messages) flat view 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and 'command not found'

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:51:33

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
I'm not all that happy with the advice, though. It's pretty technical
and specific. I'm not sure whether it would be helpful to most users or
not.
Yeah, Michael's rewording makes it fuzzier by saying "exists, unable to
execute, maybe git-%s is broken?".

I notice that we do not give the path to the file that implements the
command. Perhaps we should walk the $PATH after we see this failure to
pinpoint which one is to be inspected (I vaguely recall a weatherbaloon
patch to a similar effect)?
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