Re: [PATCH] Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 14, 2007, 01:18 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703140216480.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703131757080.9690@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:
> >
> > This introduces a new command-line option: --exit-code. The diff 
> > programs will return 1 for differences, return 0 for equality, and 
> > something else for errors.
> 
> I don't think you should need a new command-line option.
> 
> Is there any reason to not just do this unconditionally?

So, big master to hom everybody bows, how to return the correct value when executing a pager? Because this _has_ to be done if we go that way.

Ciao, Dscho