On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> > > If a push fails because the remote-helper died (with > fast-export), the user does not see any error message. We do > correctly die with a failed exit code, as we notice that the > helper has died while reading back the ref status from the > helper. However, we don't print any message. This is OK if > the helper itself printed a useful error message, but we > cannot count on that; let's let the user know that the > helper failed. > > In the long run, it may make more sense to propagate the > error back up to push, so that it can present the usual > status table and give a nicer message. But this is a much > simpler fix that can help immediately. > > While we're adding tests, let's also confirm that the > remote-helper dying is also detect when importing refs. We s/detect/detected/ > currently do so robustly when the helper uses the "done" > feature (and that is what we test). We cannot do so > reliably when the helper does not use the "done" feature, > but it is not even worth testing; the right solution is for > the helper to start using "done". > > Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> -- 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