GNU bug report logs - #65763
Error opening a file from a Git working directory if Git is not installed

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Message #47 received at 65763 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 65763 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, pogonyshev <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#65763: Error opening a file from a Git working directory if
 Git is not installed
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 18:59:00 +0300

On 06/09/2023 18:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I prefer to emit the messages, just make them more user-friendly
> ("searching for program" "no such file or directory" is not very
> friendly, IMO), and suppress the error signaling even when
> debug-on-error is non-nil.  The reason is simple: we are talking only
> about Git not being installed or accessible here, but the problems
> could be different and more obscure: Git could be present but
> inoperable for some weird misconfiguration reason, or some other
> problem could happen.  So "if it is not installed, just silently don't
> do anything" is not a complete solution, and the "silently" part loses
> information which users may wish to have presented to them.

That also sounds good to me.

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