From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:48:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0005: skip signal death exit code test on Windows Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130606064409.GA20334@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:41:05AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> > Thanks. I wasn't quite clear on how the signal handling worked on >> > Windows, but from your description, I agree there is not any point in >> > running the test at all. >> >> Shouldn't we clarify that Git exit codes only work on UNIX-like >> operating systems? > > Clarify where? Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt > My impression is that this issue is well-known in the > msys world, and it is a platform issue, not a git issue. If somebody > wants to write a note somewhere in the git documentation, that's fine > with me, but I'm not clear on exactly what it would even say. That the exit code is not the same in Windows (not msys). -- Felipe Contreras