From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:19:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff/log --check exitcode and PAGER environment variable
Message-ID: <20080808131933.GB19705@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080808131759.GA19705@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:17:59AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Yes, all of his testing with "git diff" is hampered by the pager hiding
> the exit code. And that is dealt with by the patches in next (and I
> tested his examples with 'next', and they work fine).
> 
> But that still leaves the part about "git log" not changing its exit
> code. I don't think it has ever been designed to, and I'm not even sure
> what the semantics would be (exit code != 0 if any logged commit has a
> whitespace problem? That seems the most logical, and it might be useful
> for limited ranges).

...and then after writing this I realized that all of this was dealt
with later in the thread. Sorry for the noise.

-Peff