From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:44:37 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff/log --check exitcode and PAGER environment variable
Message-ID: <7vfxpfet8a.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <489C145B.5090400@sneakemail.com>

"Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"  <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> writes:

> There is this old thread:
> "[PATCH 1/5] "diff --check" should affect exit status"
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68145/focus=68148
> which seemed not to reach a conclusion.

Conclusion was (1) if you really care about the exit code, do not use
pager; (2) after 1.6.0 we will swap the child/parent between git and pager
to expose exit code from us, but not before.

Or am I mistaken?