From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:33:28 GMT
Subject: Re: --exit-code (and --quiet) broken in git-diff?
Message-ID: <7C233CA0-D6A4-42F2-B072-B04B1874D991@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <46BED5AA.7050900@lsrfire.ath.cx>


On Aug 12, 2007, at 11:40 AM, René Scharfe wrote:

>
> git diff passes the output through your pager by default, so you  
> see the
> exit code of that instead of diff's.  Set PAGER=cat or redirect the
> output to /dev/null to get rid of it.
>
> A test case for diff would be nice regardless, though. :)

Which is not that easy, because of the redirections done
by test-lib.sh. I think git-diff needs a tty to exhibit
the wrong behaviour, which it doesn't get from test-lib
if run in standard mode (non verbose).

I tried to write a test case once, but after it got more
and more complex, I was too lazy to complete it.

	Steffen