Re: [PATCH 2/3] gc: exit with status 128 on failure

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 17, 2018, 19:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20180717195946.GC26218@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180717065416.GC177907@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:54:16PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> A value of -1 returned from cmd_gc gets propagated to exit(),
> resulting in an exit status of 255.  Use die instead for a clearer
> error message and a controlled exit.

This feels a little funny because we know we're going to turn some of these back in the next patch. That said, I'm OK with it, since this version is already written.

-Peff

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