Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix error handling in checkout-index

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > While working on another topic, I noticed that "git checkout-index --
> > path" does not propagate errors through its exit code. It has been that
> > way for so long that I almost wondered if it is intentional, but I'm
> > pretty sure it's not. A bit scary, though. :)
> 
> Quite honestly, at this point, I do not think the intention matters
> any more.  If somebody depends on the behaviour and wrote
> 
>     do some thing &&
>     git checkout-index -- $path_that_is_possibly_missing &&
>     do another thing &&
> 
> then this change _will_ be a regression, whether it was originally
> done this way on purpose or not.
> 
> I do not think it is the kind of regression that we should avoid,
> though.  I'd say that we should bite the bullet and fix it, as it
> should also be easy to fix/adjust such a collateral damage.  That
> would make the world a better place in the end.