Re: [PATCH] Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2007, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703140207kf887738od482022497d2a63d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy88dwvw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 3/14/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> and people who have been learning from the scripts (we used to
> have lot more scripts) would have picked up that pattern.
> That's why I already told you that --exit-status is the right
> thing to do if we were doing it from scratch, but is a wrong
> thing to do at this point.  Maybe in a release as big as 1.5.0
> that we pre-announce a lot of interface changes.

This is something I don't understand: why is a new option --exit-code wrong? Noone uses it yet and the default exit code is at it was before (modulo the bug with diff-tree). I am *not* proposing to change default exit codes (well, I suggest that). So what's the problem?