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

- From: Andy Parkins \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 20:01:22 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7690367

```text
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
```