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bug#65763: Error opening a file from a Git working directory if Git is n


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: 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
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0

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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