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Man pages lack of exit status information

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FMFrancis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2008, 07:45 UTC
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<38b2ab8a0804170045xa542274pa9f1e434f428b1cd@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,

I checked on a couple of git commands' man pages and I couldn't find the exit status of these commands.

For example: git-status, git-diff man pages don't tell anything.
Am I missing something ?
Thanks
-- 
Francis
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