"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I mean, if the information needed to print the error message (packfile > name and version in this example) is available to the caller, or the > caller can get it someway, then the caller could check which error > he got and build the message himself. > > That seems simpler to me, considering the caller has the needed > info, of course... It's a possibility, but that would make it much less nice to diagnose and debug problems, as the caller does not usually have necessary information. The caller may ask for object A, and the error is triggered because a different object C is missing, which is the delta base of object B which in turn is the delta base of object A. The best your "caller" can say is "cannot read object A for some reason", and it cannot say "cannot read object A because object C is missing". - 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