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Bug 331521

Summary:	Error message for invalid URI on Branch Selection dialog is unclear
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Philipp Thun <philipp.thun>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	tomasz.zarna
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Philipp Thun

2010-12-01 05:44:49 EST

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

The Branch Selection dialog displays an unclear, non user friendly error message in case the user entered a syntactically correct URI in the Clone wizard that does not point to a repository. The message looks as follows:

http://egit.eclipse.org/notexists: http://egit.eclipse.org/notexists/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack not found

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clone a Git repository (e.g. Git Repositories view -> Clone a Git Repository... button)
2. Enter syntactically correct URI that does not point to a repository (e.g. http://egit.eclipse.org/notexists)
3. Click Next

Comment 1 Tomasz Zarna

2013-04-21 18:30:34 EDT

The message now (2.3.1) says:

"http://egit.eclipse.org/notexists: cannot open git-upload-pack

Please check:
* Network Connection settings
* Network Connection -> SSH2 Eclipse preferences

..."

Philipp, feel free to reopen if you still think the message can be better phrased.