From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:22:56 GMT Subject: Re: Why usage function exit with code 129? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 2012/1/6 徐迪 : > I did like this: > $ git add --foo > $ echo $? > what I got is 129, should this code being used as program terminated > due to a signal? Cause it's 128+1. According to this[1]. usage() (in your case) always returns 129, die() 128. See 5d1a5c0 ([PATCH] Better error reporting for "git status") > [1] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html No it does not mean terminated by signals. -- Duy