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Re: [PATCH] Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Dec 31, 2005, 00:15 UTC
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John Ellson wrote:
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> John Ellson wrote:
> 
>> I think it is probably a bug that "git non_existent_command"
>> returns its error message to stdout without an error, where
>> "git-non_existent_command" behaves differently and does return an
>> error.
> 
> 
> BTW.  Its the old shell-script version of "git" that fails to return an 
> error on non_existent_commands.    The newer C version of "git" 
> correctly returns an error code.
> 
> The reason that this is a sufficiently serious problem to require a fix 
> is that the broken version of "git" is in the 
> git-core-0.99.9a-2.fc5.i386.rpm that is currently in Fedora Core Extras 
> development.
>

It has been fixed. What's broken is that Fedora Extras still contains 0.99.9a which is totally ancient.

	-hpa
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