Re: [PATCH 1/2] clone: Fix error message for reference repository

At 20:06 -0400 07 Apr 2013, I wrote:

At 16:48 -0700 07 Apr 2013, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Would it make sense for the message to say something like the
following?

fatal: alternate object store '/path/to/repo.git/objects' is not a local directory

That would also avoid lying to the user.  But if combined with the 
second patch in this series it could cause confusion for a different 
reason.  Once .git files are honored, the path reported there may have 
no relation to the path supplied by the user.

Thinking on this further, even without the companion patch there's 
another issue.  The problem isn't just that 
/path/supplied/by/user/objects isn't a directory.  It's that neither 
that nor /path/supplied/by/user/.git/objects is a directory.  And in 
many cases it's the latter that the user would be expecting to have been 
used.  Reporting on just the last name checked isn't really a good 
description of what's going on.