Fail properly when cloning from invalid HTTP URL

Currently, when cloning from invalid HTTP URL, git clone will possibly
return curl error, then a confusing message about remote HEAD and then
return success and leave an empty repository behind, confusing either
the end-user or the automated service calling it (think repo.or.cz).

This patch changes the error() calls in get_refs_via_curl() to die()s,
akin to the other get_refs_*() functions.

Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 6f549b336ba1f7c84f45bd13317949bae4f9c704..b3e3e61f9dddec8230532f7d248beba801a38123 100644 (file)
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -463,17 +463,14 @@ static struct ref *get_refs_via_curl(struct transport *transport)
                run_active_slot(slot);
                if (results.curl_result != CURLE_OK) {
                        strbuf_release(&buffer);
-                       if (missing_target(&results)) {
-                               return NULL;
-                       } else {
-                               error("%s", curl_errorstr);
-                               return NULL;
-                       }
+                       if (missing_target(&results))
+                               die("%s not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?", refs_url);
+                       else
+                               die("%s download error - %s", refs_url, curl_errorstr);
                }
        } else {
                strbuf_release(&buffer);
-               error("Unable to start request");
-               return NULL;
+               die("Unable to start HTTP request");
        }
 
        data = buffer.buf;