microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
When installing VSCode Server on a `ssh` remote, verify the `scp` transfer status and display appropriate error if transfer failed
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Right now, when errors happen during VSCode Server installation on an SSH remote, it is not straightforward to understand what happened (e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/10200). It would be great if better error messages could be designed for various common failure modes.
Today, the issue was that I had ran out of space in my environment, and scp would fail to write the entire file. Nonetheless, the script would continue to run, and fail on the gzip decompression step. I think it would be good to check the file transfer succeeded, and if not display a suitable error message.
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