From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:55:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: different exit codes for git stash depending on whether stash was created or not
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:55 AM Ian Kemp <ian.kemp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, git stash's exit code is 0 regardless of whether it
> performed a stash operation or not. Third parties invoking git stash
> are therefore unable to determine whether a stash was actually made or
> not.
>
> It would be helpful if there were different exit codes for the case
> when a stash was created (working directory dirty) vs when a stash was
> not (working dir clean). git stash create suffers from the same issue.

There was a recent discussion[1] about this which might interest you.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/01020169a7ad6af3-ad50e2d1-19fb-46eb-b397-759f8d579e8b-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com/