At 20:06 -0400 07 Apr 2013, I wrote:
At 16:48 -0700 07 Apr 2013, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
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