Comments on: fatal: protocol error: expected sha/ref

By: TertTriar

TertTriar — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:11:11 +0000

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By: Ali Sabil

Ali Sabil — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:42:57 +0000

Well, the issue is that you are assuming that “repository” belongs to the bzr vocabulary, and actually it doesn’t, there is no such thing as a repository (in the way you intend it) in bzr, actually everything is a branch, and you clone branches not repositories.

The error message you are suggesting just doesn’t make any sense in the context of the bzr terminology.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:43:14 +0000

this isn’t uninformed nonsense, lennart’s bzr error message doesn’t state what’s going on (the repository doesn’t exists there), whereas your’s git error message clearly say there’s “no matching repository” here. a random DVCS user, would probably understand the later better than the former.

while git has some progress to make with some error message, bzr definitely has too.

By: Ali Sabil

Ali Sabil — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:45:54 +0000

Thanks for the input, I fixed Lennart’s name in the post.

Otherwise, I really don’t care about git’s output message, I was just replying to Lennart’s spreading uninformed nonsense about bzr.

By: FelipeC

FelipeC — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:31:18 +0000

It’s Lennart, not Lenart.

I’m sorry, is git clone’s output not clear enough or what seems to be the complaint? If you specify it I can fix it in a couple of minutes.