Re: [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented?

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 1, 2014, 16:43 UTC
Message-ID: <87oarngw2b.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa937qqb7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> $ git help log | grep exit-code
>>>>            problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code.
>>>> $
>>>>
>>>> What --exit-code does in "git log"?
>>>
>>> It doesn't.  That is why it is not listed.
>>
>> Then, how can --check possibly interfer with it?
>
> The description is shared with "git diff" and friends, which is
> invoked via "git log -p".  As "log" does not give the exit code
> of individual "diff-tree" invocation for each commit, --exit-code
> option is irrelevant.

Do you agree there is some minor problem here? First, "git log" silently eats the --exit-code option that does nothing. Next, git-log manual page doesn't include --exit-log description while refers to it elsewhere. What's proposed resulution?

-- 
Sergey.