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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Horst Schirmeier <horst@schirmeier.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] send-pack: improve unpack-status error messages
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 00:45:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170308054533.7wy52myrbpovyoet@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq37eo66hw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:56:27PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > When the remote tells us that the "unpack" step failed, we
> > show an error message. However, unless you are familiar with
> > the internals of send-pack and receive-pack, it was not
> > clear that this represented an error on the remote side.
> > Let's re-word to make that more obvious.
> >
> > Likewise, when we got an unexpected packet from the other
> > end, we complained with a vague message but did not actually
> > show the packet.  Let's fix that.
> 
> Both make sense.
> 
> > And finally, neither message was marked for translation. The
> > message from the remote probably won't be translated, but
> > there's no reason we can't do better for the local half.
> 
> Hmm, OK.

I'll admit that I don't actually use the translations myself, being a
native English speaker.  So I am just guessing that somebody for whom
English is a second language would rather see the first half in a more
intelligible format. That at least tells them what the second half _is_,
so they might be able to search for the error with more context.

If my guess is wrong, though, I'm happy to retract that part or bump it
out to a separate patch.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-08 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-07 11:03 regression: git push in non-shared repo stalls (v2.11.0+) Horst Schirmeier
2017-03-07 11:14 ` Horst Schirmeier
2017-03-07 13:34   ` [PATCH 0/6] deadlock regression in v2.11.0 with failed mkdtemp Jeff King
2017-03-07 13:35     ` [PATCH 1/6] receive-pack: fix deadlock when we cannot create tmpdir Jeff King
2017-03-07 13:35     ` [PATCH 2/6] send-pack: extract parsing of "unpack" response Jeff King
2017-03-07 13:36     ` [PATCH 3/6] send-pack: use skip_prefix for parsing unpack status Jeff King
2017-03-07 13:37     ` [PATCH 4/6] send-pack: improve unpack-status error messages Jeff King
2017-03-07 22:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08  5:45         ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-03-08 17:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 13:38     ` [PATCH 5/6] send-pack: read "unpack" status even on pack-objects failure Jeff King
2017-03-07 13:39     ` [PATCH 6/6] send-pack: report signal death of pack-objects Jeff King
2017-03-07 13:50     ` [PATCH 0/6] deadlock regression in v2.11.0 with failed mkdtemp Jeff King
2017-03-08 17:58     ` Horst Schirmeier

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