Errors spamming the stderr output

[another-rex]

Some errors should only be displayed once, but spams the output because of its location in the code flow.

Currently the only example of this I have is :

https://github.com/google/osv-scanner/blob/main/internal/local/check.go/#L147-L148

Solution proposed:
Have some global hashmap that checks if this error has already been logged and don't repeat the log.

[G-Rath]

Can you provide a reproduction for that specific example? as it sounds like a potential bug.

The whole concept though of not spamming errors sounds good

[another-rex]

Call osv-scanner --experimental-offline . without a local-db already set up, and it'll print one error per package that's scanned, since the error is in MakeRequest. So it's working as intended, it's just not great UX.