From: Lars Damerow <lars@pixar•com>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:36:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100315233645.GG11157@pixar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1003151616m4c0e9100g77170433f6a67912@mail.gmail.com>
>From Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail•com>, Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:16:19AM +0100:
> Heya,
>
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 22:40, Lars Damerow <lars@pixar•com> wrote:
> > if (buf.st_dev != current_device)
> > die("refusing to cross filesystem boundary '%s/..'", cwd);
>
> Great, that's going to tell the unfortunate user who runs into this a
> whole lot of nothing. Shouldn't you at least tell them what git was
> trying to do, how they can fix it if this is not the desired behavior,
> etc. etc.?
Hi Sverre,
You're right, that's a badly-worded error. How about this?
Not a git repository (or any parent up to /path/to/mountpoint)
Stopping at filesystem boundary since GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM is set.
-lars
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 21:40 [PATCH] Add support for GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM Lars Damerow
2010-03-15 23:16 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-03-15 23:36 ` Lars Damerow [this message]
2010-03-16 2:33 ` Jeff King
2010-03-16 3:28 ` Lars Damerow
2010-03-16 3:37 ` Jeff King
2010-03-16 4:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-16 5:56 ` Lars Damerow
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