From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:51:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems using perl's Git.pm module
Message-ID: <7vipzcrrk9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101202114003.GA26070@raven.wolf.lan>

Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:

>   jw@raven:~/testrepos> git st
>   # On branch master
>   nothing to commit (working directory clean)

I take it that you have "alias.st.cmd = status".

Observe what this gives you:

    $ git st; echo $?

If you are running pre-1.7.0 version of git, I think "git status" was a
synonym to "git commit --dry-run" and exited with non-zero status to
signal the caller that there is nothing to commit, which is...

>   jw@raven:~/testrepos> ./test.pl
>   # On branch master
>   nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>   status failed w/ code 1 at ./test.pl line 9

...consistent with what we see here.