From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:55:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512301153100.3249@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <43B586B4.5030001@research.att.com>



On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, John Ellson wrote:
> 
> I checked and that bug has been fixed since the older version of git that
> was causing me problems. "git non_existent_command" now returns 1.

Ahh, good.

> However, the error message was also changed to goto stderr, which it 
> sounds like you disagree with?

Not that I can see:

	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ git --version
	git version 1.0.6-g58e3
	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ git hjsdhjas > /dev/null 
	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ echo $?
	1

so yes, it returns a proper error, and it outputs the help message to 
stdout, not stderr. Which is fine, because it means that you can indeed do

	git help | less

and it will do the right thing (apart from printing the line

	git: 'help' is not a git-command

which is a bit sad).

		Linus