Explain why no files were synced

[briandealwis]

I encountered a puzzling message when diagnosing an error on Stack Overflow involving syncing. My file sync was failing with the following error:

Syncing 1 files for testappacr.azurecr.io/test-app-admin:4c76dec58e1ef426b89fd44e3b340810db96b6961c5cacfdb76f62c9dc6725b8
WARN[0043] Skipping deploy due to sync error: copying files: didn't sync any files

This error message comes from:

skaffold/pkg/skaffold/sync/sync.go

Lines 370 to 372 in ba4a58d

	if numSynced == 0 {
	return errors.New("didn't sync any files")
	}

The message doesn't provide any real insight as to why nothing was synced.

Ultimately the root cause was that I had disabled the status checks while I was getting the setup to work as they prevent seeing useful logs. I only discovered the pod was failing due to a missing PVC there was a problem after poking around with kubectl describe. So there were no running containers to copy the file to.

So:

• sync.Perform() could track and report some more information on exceptional conditions: no running pods found, no matching containers found
• perhaps the status checks could, perhaps after some amount of time, do a describe on the items that aren't healthy?

(This is related to #1571 but that issue was closed a while back and references different part of the code.)