Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial fix: Display a more friendly message with git-shell.

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:17:26 +0200

Thiago Farina schrieb:
> +static const char shell_usage[] = "git shell -c <command> <argument>";
> +
>  static int do_generic_cmd(const char *me, char *arg)
>  {
>  	const char *my_argv[4];
> @@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  	 * where "cmd" is a very limited subset of git commands.
>  	 */
>  	else if (argc != 3 || strcmp(argv[1], "-c"))
> -		die("What do you think I am? A shell?");
> +		usage(shell_usage);

I don't think this is an improvement.

git-shell has a very limited use: It is to be used as the login-shell of
accounts where the admin will allow ssh access, but only to git repositories.

Every other use of git-shell is an error, and the current error message
says exactly that, although in a very 31337 way (and, BTW, /me likes it :-)

If an naive user runs git-shell from the command line, then your new
message will not be helpful because git-shell will accept only a very
restricted set of commands.

-- Hannes