From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:15:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command
Message-ID: <43B5CDA2.5050408@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <dp41ve$v7r$1@sea.gmane.org>

John Ellson wrote:
> 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