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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Doesn't disambiguate between 'external command failed' and
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:24:15 +0200
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Heya,

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 01:22, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> So I think I prefer giving some more specific advice. Even if we don't
> mention "#!" lines explicitly, saying "This exists, but exec didn't
> work" is probably more helpful than pretending it's not there. It gives
> clueful people an idea of where to start looking for the problem.

Seconded. We should at least give the user enough information to
figure out next steps. I like the advice from bad_interpreter_advice,
although it might be phrased more as a suggestion "Try looking at
..."?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier