Hi, On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Tom Preston-Werner wrote: > The current behavior of git-daemon is to simply close the connection on > any error condition. This leaves the client without any information as > to the cause of the failed fetch/push/etc. > > This patch allows get_remote_heads to accept a line prefixed with "ERR" > that it can display to the user in an informative fashion. Once clients > can understand this ERR line, git-daemon can be made to properly report > "repository not found", "permission denied", or other errors. > > Example > > S: ERR No matching repository. > C: fatal: remote error: No matching repository. Makes sense to me. The cute trick with this is that even older clients would be able to display the error, albeit with a sort of funny message: protocol error: expected sha/ref, got 'No matching repository.' Ciao, Dscho -- 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
