# git commit silently fails

2 messages from 2026-04-28 to 2026-05-01. Participants: Yuri, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/65564

## Yuri, 2026-04-28 20:39

Subject: git commit silently fails
Message-ID: <a650d44b-1ab1-4a20-9b17-c82cea604acb@rawbw.com>

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Hi,


I was committing this way forever.


But today git failed:
[yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git commit --verbose . 
-m "devel/catch2: update 3.13.0 → 3.14.0"
[yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ echo $?
1
[yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git --version
git version 2.54.0


No error messages, no verbose messages, just failure ...
What might be wrong?


OS: FreeBSD 15 STABLE amd64



Thanks,
Yuri



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## Jeff King, 2026-05-01 06:49

Subject: Re: git commit silently fails
Message-ID: <20260501064955.GA2706240@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <a650d44b-1ab1-4a20-9b17-c82cea604acb@rawbw.com>

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 01:39:35PM -0700, Yuri wrote:

> But today git failed:
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git commit --verbose . -m
> "devel/catch2: update 3.13.0 → 3.14.0"
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ echo $?
> 1
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git --version
> git version 2.54.0
> 
> 
> No error messages, no verbose messages, just failure ...
> What might be wrong?

I can't reproduce the problem here, so a wild guess: do you have a pager
configured for the commit command (with pager.commit, for example)? That
could be eating all of the output (including stderr) if the pager
command fails to run.

-Peff

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