From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:43:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] t2203: fix wrong commit command Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 2012/1/11 Ramkumar Ramachandra : > Hi Duy, > > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: >> Add commit message to avoid commit's aborting due to the lack of >> commit message, not because there are INTENT_TO_ADD entries in index. > > Is there any way to differentiate between the two kinds of errors, so > that we can avoid this in the future?  Can we grep the error message > for something, or inspect the exit status? commit exits with 1 in both cases, so no. -- Duy