Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:32:51PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > >> 3. receive-pack notices that the unpacker failed, and spews >> >> error: unpack failed: unpacker exited with error code >> >> to stderr, in case unpack-objects didn't say anything. > > Actually, this is not true. receive-pack actually passes the error code > back to send-pack, which prints it. I think it is doing so because we > get that status separate from the individual ref status. But if you look > at receive-pack, it doesn't even bother trying individual refs if the > unpack failed; every ref will just get the "unpack failed" message. How could it even "bother" to tell which ref? The protocol says "Here are the values for the refs after you unpack the data that follows; here is the pack data for you", and then you find the error in the pack data. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html