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Re: Git thinks a failing command doesn't exist

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 11, 2010, 19:48 UTC
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:45:14PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > So either your shell is producing that exit code for a different case,
> > or git is broken.
> 
> My shell is Debian /bin/dash 0.5.5.1-6.
Hmm, I can't reproduce here, and I am also using dash as my shell.
> Unfortunately the error with rebase was some one-off thing that I
> couldn't reproduce. I'm not even sure /what/ I did to make it happen.

OK. The code is _supposed_ to work as you expected, so if it happens again, I guess try to reproduce and we'll go from there.

-Peff
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