remove the impression of unexpectedness when access is denied

If a server accessed through ssh is denying access git will currently
issue the message

	"fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"

as the last line. This sounds as if something really ugly just happened.
Since this is a quite typical situation in which users regularly get
we do not say that if it happens at the beginning when reading the
remote heads.

If its in the very first beginning of reading the remote heads it is
very likely an authentication error or a missing repository.

If it happens later during reading the remote heads we still indicate
that it happened during this initial contact phase.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/pkt-line.c b/pkt-line.c
index 5a04984..eaba15f 100644
--- a/pkt-line.c
+++ b/pkt-line.c
@@ -135,13 +135,19 @@ void packet_buf_write(struct strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...)
 	strbuf_add(buf, buffer, n);
 }
 
-static void safe_read(int fd, void *buffer, unsigned size)
+static int safe_read(int fd, void *buffer, unsigned size, int return_line_fail)
 {
 	ssize_t ret = read_in_full(fd, buffer, size);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		die_errno("read error");
-	else if (ret < size)
+	else if (ret < size) {
+		if (return_line_fail)
+			return -1;
+
 		die("The remote end hung up unexpectedly");
+	}
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int packet_length(const char *linelen)
@@ -169,12 +175,14 @@ static int packet_length(const char *linelen)
 	return len;
 }
 
-int packet_read_line(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size)
+static int packet_read_internal(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size, int return_line_fail)
 {
-	int len;
+	int len, ret;
 	char linelen[4];
 
-	safe_read(fd, linelen, 4);
+	ret = safe_read(fd, linelen, 4, return_line_fail);
+	if (return_line_fail && ret < 0)
+		return ret;
 	len = packet_length(linelen);
 	if (len < 0)
 		die("protocol error: bad line length character: %.4s", linelen);
@@ -185,12 +193,24 @@ int packet_read_line(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size)
 	len -= 4;
 	if (len >= size)
 		die("protocol error: bad line length %d", len);
-	safe_read(fd, buffer, len);
+	ret = safe_read(fd, buffer, len, return_line_fail);
+	if (return_line_fail && ret < 0)
+		return ret;
 	buffer[len] = 0;
 	packet_trace(buffer, len, 0);
 	return len;
 }
 
+int packet_read(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size)
+{
+	return packet_read_internal(fd, buffer, size, 1);
+}
+
+int packet_read_line(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size)
+{
+	return packet_read_internal(fd, buffer, size, 0);
+}
+
 int packet_get_line(struct strbuf *out,
 	char **src_buf, size_t *src_len)
 {