Re: [PATCH v2] config: Use parseopt.

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> > Or maybe even better: set a variable "ret" and at the end of 
> >> > cmd_config(), "return !!ret;"?
> >> 
> >> Huh? So git commands don't return negative error values?
> >
> > AFAICT an exit status is supposed to be between 0 and 127.
> 
> Are you two talking about the return value from cmd_config()?
> 
> git.c::run_builtin() already knows what to do with status codes from the
> builtins to protect you from (rare) shells that do not cope with a
> negative return that come from the common pattern of doing:
> 
> 	return error("it is wrong in this way")
> 
> So "negative" is not really a problem.