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Re: [PATCH] git-commit: exit non-zero if we fail to commit the index

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2008, 02:11 UTC
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
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>>  We would need to tell the user that the index is not where
>> it is when we detect the error, though.
>
> The new index we are trying to rename will be deleted.
> Are you saying we should 
>   warn the user that the index is now out of sync?

Yeah, something like that. But I think that once this happens there is no easy and sane recovery path for the user, as the most likely cause of the failure there would be the user running out of quota, so "git reset HEAD" which may be the way to recover from that failure would not have enough room to create a new index file anyway.

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  1. git-commit: exit non-zero if we fail to commit the indexBrandon Casey, Jan 17, 2008
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  5. git-commit: exit non-zero if we fail to commit the indexBrandon Casey, Jan 22, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2008
  7. git-commit: exit non-zero if we fail to commit the indexBrandon Casey, Jan 23, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 23, 2008
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