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From: Alex Vandiver <alex@chmrr.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and 'command not found'
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:49:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309884564.18513.12.camel@umgah> (raw)

An external git-whatever command which fails to run gets reported as not
having been found, and suggests ... exactly what you just ran.  If you
miss the first line of the output, this can be extremely confusing --
and "is not a git command" is somewhat misleading:

        umgah ~ $ cat bin/git-bogus
        #!/usr/bin/env nonexistant
        echo "yay"
        
        umgah ~ $ git bogus
        /usr/bin/env: nonexistant: No such file or directory
        git: 'bogus' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
        
        Did you mean this?
        	bogus

I've no patch right now, but I thought I'd report the frustration, in
case someone else wanted to get to it first.
 - Alex

             reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-05 16:49 Alex Vandiver [this message]
2011-07-05 20:41 ` Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and 'command not found' Michael Schubert
2011-07-05 23:16   ` Jeff King
2011-07-05 23:22     ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 11:24       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-07-06 11:47     ` Michael Schubert
2011-07-06 17:58       ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 18:00         ` Jeff King
2011-07-06 23:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-08 10:08             ` Michael Schubert
2011-07-08 16:52               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-06 17:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-06 17:56       ` Jeff King

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