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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2013-06-21 03:05:39 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-21 09:03:53 -0700
commit266f1fdfa99f5d29ca7ce455966e7960c00a82e4 (patch)
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parentUpdate draft release notes to 1.8.4 (diff)
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transport-helper: be quiet on read errors from helpers
Prior to commit 81d340d4, we did not print any error message if a remote transport helper died unexpectedly. If a helper did not print any error message (e.g., because it crashed), the user could be left confused. That commit tried to rectify the situation by printing a note that the helper exited unexpectedly. However, this makes a much more common case worse: when a helper does die with a useful message, we print the extra "Reading from 'git-remote-foo failed" message. This can also end up confusing users, as they may not even know what remote helpers are (e.g., the fact that http support comes through git-remote-https is purely an implementation detail that most users do not know or care about). Since we do not have a good way of knowing whether the helper printed a useful error, and since the common failure mode is for it to do so, let's default to remaining quiet. Debuggers can dig further by setting GIT_TRANSPORT_HELPER_DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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