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

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2007, 09:46 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703140246h13f6f18fo88395ad603885dc3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5xkcgkb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

> In the ideal world we would sensibly make our diff to report
> with its exit status.  Unfortunately we cannot for the above
> backward compatibility worries, so a new option is an ugly
> but necessary workaround.

right

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