Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] fix "Funny: git -p submodule summary"

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jan 27, 2009, 12:46 UTC
Message-ID: <497F021B.2050306@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090127122315.GA22628@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schrieb:

> However, I'm not sure just negating the exit code is sufficient.
> run_command can return codes in the 10000 range for its own internal
> errors. We don't want to pass those out through exit, which will
> truncate them to 8 bits.

Exit code and start_command/finish_command's return code handling is a complete mess IMHO and deserves a clean-up series of its own. If the few codes at 10000 and above are truncated to 8 bits, then we get exit codes 16 and higher; I think that's good enough for this series.

-- Hannes

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