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[PATCH] Fix "git-fetch --tags" exit status when nothing has been changed

From
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Date
Jul 14, 2006, 15:06 UTC
Message-ID
<11528896171250-git-send-email-vsu@altlinux.ru>

After commit 55b7835e1b81a6debc7648149d2b8a4c5c64ddba git-fetch --tags exits with status 1 when no tags have been changed, which breaks calling git-fetch from scripts.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
---
 git-fetch.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-fetch.sh b/git-fetch.sh
index ff17699..ee99280 100755
--- a/git-fetch.sh
+++ b/git-fetch.sh
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ fast_forward_local () {
 	then
 		if now_=$(cat "$GIT_DIR/$1") && test "$now_" = "$2"
 		then
-			[ "$verbose" ] && echo >&2 "* $1: same as $3"
+			[ "$verbose" ] && echo >&2 "* $1: same as $3" ||:
 		else
 			echo >&2 "* $1: updating with $3"
 			git-update-ref -m "$rloga: updating tag" "$1" "$2"
-- 
1.4.1.ga319
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  1. Fix "git-fetch --tags" exit status when nothing has been changedSergey Vlasov, Jul 14, 2006

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