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Re: Possible bug in 'git status' exit code is 1 instead of 0

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 9, 2007, 18:12 UTC
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"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
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> bash-3.1$ pwd
> /home/marco/programmi/git
> bash-3.1$ git status; echo $?
> # On branch refs/heads/origin
> nothing to commit (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)
> 1
> bash-3.1$ git --version
> git version 1.5.0.rc0.g244a7

I think that's normal and has been the way for git-commit to detect if there is anything to commit.

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