connect.c: add a way for git-daemon to pass an error back to client
The current behavior of git-daemon is to simply close the connection on
any error condition. This leaves the client without any information as
to the cause of the failed fetch/push/etc.
This patch allows get_remote_heads to accept a line prefixed with "ERR"
that it can display to the user in an informative fashion. Once clients
can understand this ERR line, git-daemon can be made to properly report
"repository not found", "permission denied", or other errors.
Example
S: ERR No matching repository.
C: fatal: remote error: No matching repository.
Signed-off-by: Tom Preston-Werner <tom@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 0c50d0a..584e04c 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
if (buffer[len-1] == '\n')
buffer[--len] = 0;
+ if (len > 4 && !prefixcmp(buffer, "ERR "))
+ die("remote error: %s", buffer + 4);
+
if (len < 42 || get_sha1_hex(buffer, old_sha1) || buffer[40] != ' ')
die("protocol error: expected sha/ref, got '%s'", buffer);
name = buffer + 41;
