shell: do not play duplicated definition games to shrink the executable

diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 6eb65b873afc9dfd457e974b63d88350bb8dc913..71433d99978ddcc53c80fd6de4aee98871c6d8cf 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;