Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] git-push: make git push --dry-run --porcelain exit with status 0 even if updates will be rejected

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2010, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmxzaxmc6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100215174013.GA12761@cthulhu>

Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org> writes:

> Which version of the --quiet behavior do you want for the next version
> of this series?  My feeling is that "even if you asked for --quiet, we
> would report if there is an error" is the best policy, even under
> --dry-run --porcelain.

I think that is probably a sane and the least-surprising thing to do from the end user's point of view.

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