From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:11:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Why usage function exit with code 129?
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2012/1/6 徐迪 <xudifsd@gmail.com>:
>>> [1] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html
>>
>> No it does not mean terminated by signals.
>> --
> In that case, why not just use another code instead of the code that
> leads misunderstanding? I mean, as far as I know, exit code between
> 129 and 255 are used to indicate the program terminated by signal. So
> that usage function can only exit with code between 1 and 127. Am I
> wrong?

Because that code has been there too long (since 2005) any probably
all git commands, including plumbing ones, rely on it. Changing it now
may break existing scripts.
-- 
Duy