IPv6 hosts are often unreachable on the primarily IPv4 Internet and therefore we shouldn't print an error if there are still other hosts we can try to connect() to. This helps "git fetch --quiet" stay quiet. --- connect.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c index 2119c3f..8eb9f44 100644 --- a/connect.c +++ b/connect.c @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static const char *ai_name(const struct addrinfo *ai) */ static int git_tcp_connect_sock(char *host, int flags) { + struct strbuf error_message = STRBUF_INIT; int sockfd = -1, saved_errno = 0; const char *port = STR(DEFAULT_GIT_PORT); struct addrinfo hints, *ai0, *ai; @@ -225,11 +226,8 @@ static int git_tcp_connect_sock(char *host, int flags) } if (connect(sockfd, ai->ai_addr, ai->ai_addrlen) < 0) { saved_errno = errno; - fprintf(stderr, "%s[%d: %s]: errno=%s\n", - host, - cnt, - ai_name(ai), - strerror(saved_errno)); + strbuf_addf(&error_message, "%s[%d: %s]: errno=%s\n", + host, cnt, ai_name(ai), strerror(saved_errno)); close(sockfd); sockfd = -1; continue; @@ -242,11 +240,13 @@ static int git_tcp_connect_sock(char *host, int flags) freeaddrinfo(ai0); if (sockfd < 0) - die("unable to connect a socket (%s)", strerror(saved_errno)); + die("unable to connect to %s:\n%s", host, error_message.buf); if (flags & CONNECT_VERBOSE) fprintf(stderr, "done.\n"); + strbuf_release(&error_message); + return sockfd; } -- 1.7.6.rc1.1.g2e27 -- 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