From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:58:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git log --check to return an appropriate error code
Message-ID: <7vljz66mmt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1218265054-19220-1-git-send-email-4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>

Peter Valdemar Mørch  <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> writes:

> 	The return value is a bitfield, with |= 1 if HAS_CHANGES
> 	(clearly log has changes "always" - except e.g. "git log
> 	HEAD..HEAD")...

Is it clear?  "git log HEAD~20..HEAD -- path" where path never changes
within the range would be !HAS_CHANGES, wouldn't it?

Perhaps "git log --exit-code --raw A..B -- path" should give the same exit
status as '! test -z "$(git rev-list A..B -- path)"'?