From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:12:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bisect run: "skip" current commit if script exit code is 125.
Message-ID: <7vabq5ulvq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071027053305.GB3115@hermes.priv>

Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:02:31AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
>> Le vendredi 26 octobre 2007, Benoit SIGOURE a écrit :
>> > On Oct 26, 2007, at 5:39 AM, Christian Couder wrote:
>> > >
>> > > +The special exit code 125 should be used when the current source code
>> > > +cannot be tested. If the "run" script exits with this code, the
>> > > current
>> > > +revision will be "skip"ped, see `git bisect skip` above.
>> > > [...]
>> >
>> Also there is:
>> 
>> $ grep 77 /usr/include/sysexits.h
>> #define EX_NOPERM       77      /* permission denied */
>
> How about 
>
> #define EX_TEMPFAIL     75      /* temp failure; user is invited to retry */

Let's stop bikeshedding.  125 is as good as anything else.