From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:43:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] t2203: fix wrong commit command Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > 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. but grepping error message should work, sorry I hit send too fast -- Duy