From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:13:11 GMT Subject: Re: git commit return code Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4C601F9B.6040102@puffy.pl> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 15:32, Tomasz Pajor wrote: > Is this proper behaviour: > > root# su -c "git commit --quiet -a -m \"templates generation\";" > # On branch master > nothing to commit (working directory clean) > root# echo $? > 1 Yes, you asked it to create a commit, but there's nothing to commit. Hence the failure to commit.