Re: [PATCH] wt-status.c: set commitable bit if there is a meaningful merge.

From: Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Date: Aug 23, 2018, 01:28 UTC
Message-ID: <4269794.LOdZa0ZRjb@thunderbird>
In-Reply-To: <28440975.G22uFktzHy@thunderbird>

> > On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:33:54 PM MST Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Wow, that's quite an old discussion ;-)

It wasn't intended to be so

> After these:

<snip>

> tells me that "--short" still does not notice that there _is_
> something to be committed, either with an ancient version like
> v2.10.5 or more modern versions of Git.  The "long" version exits
> with 0, while "--short" one exists with 1.

$ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $? A a-new-file 0

$ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $? A a-new-file 1

> 
> So...?

For me it is the return code that is faulty .... Starting to investigate. Thanks