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Bug 331521 - Error message for invalid URI on Branch Selection dialog is unclear
Summary: Error message for invalid URI on Branch Selection dialog is unclear
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 trivial (vote)
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Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2010-12-01 05:44 EST by Philipp Thun CLA
Modified: 2013-04-21 18:30 EDT (History)
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Description Philipp Thun CLA 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 CLA 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.