Re: [PATCH] difftool: honor --trust-exit-code for builtin tools

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> run_merge_tool() was not setting $status, which prevented the
> >> exit code for builtin tools from being forwarded to the caller.
> >>
> >> Capture the exit status and add a test to guarantee the behavior.
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Adria Farres <14farresa@gmail.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  git-mergetool--lib.sh | 1 +
> >>  t/t7800-difftool.sh   | 5 +++++
> >>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
> >> index a40d3df..2b66351 100644
> >> --- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
> >> +++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
> >> @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ run_merge_tool () {
> >>       else
> >>               run_diff_cmd "$1"
> >>       fi
> >> +     status=$?
> >>       return $status
> >>  }
> >
> > Thanks for a quick turn-around.  As a hot-fix for what is already in
> > -rc I am fine with this fix but the patch makes me wonder if $status
> > as a global shell variable has any significance.
> 
> $status is an alias for $? in zsh, and so cannot be assigned to. But
> other than that I don't think it holds any meaning and should be fine
> in a .sh script.