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Re: [PATCH] diff: report bogus input to -C/-M/-B

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2010, 16:53 UTC
Message-ID
<20101021165340.GE3732@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20101021144947.GA18210@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
Show 12 quoted lines
> Before:
> 
>   $ git diff -CM
>   $ echo $?
>   128
> 
> After:
> 
>   $ git diff -CM
>   error: invalid argument to -C: M
>   $ echo $?
>   128
Yes, please.

Who is it that exits(128) in this code path? Are there other functions it calls that might return an error without reporting it to stderr?

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