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Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: return 2 when nothing to rewrite

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 15, 2018, 14:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20180315141220.GB27748@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20180315130359.6108-1-michele@locati.it>
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Michele Locati wrote:
> Using the --state-branch option allows us to perform incremental filtering.
> This may lead to having nothing to rewrite in subsequent filtering, so we need
> a way to recognize this case.
> So, let's exit with 2 instead of 1 when this "error" occurs.

That sounds like a good feature. It doesn't look like we use "2" for anything else currently.

> ---
>  git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

This should probably get a mention in the manpage at Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt, too.

Thanks.
-Peff
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