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[PATCH] branch: error code with --edit-description

From
Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 25, 2022, 22:57 UTC
Message-ID
<b0f96b35-4e69-a889-bcdf-e0b40b89384f@gmail.com>

Since c2d17ba3db0d (branch --edit-description: protect against mistyped branch name, 2012-02-05) we return -1 on error editing the branch description.

Let's change to 1, which follows the established convention and it is better for portability reasons.

Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
---
 builtin/branch.c  | 2 +-
 t/t3200-branch.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index c964ac7bb4..15be0c03ef 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 		strbuf_addf(&branch_ref, "refs/heads/%s", branch_name);
 		if (!ref_exists(branch_ref.buf))
-			ret = error((!argc || !strcmp(head, branch_name))
+			error((!argc || !strcmp(head, branch_name))
 			      ? _("No commit on branch '%s' yet.")
 			      : _("No branch named '%s'."),
 			      branch_name);
diff --git a/t/t3200-branch.sh b/t/t3200-branch.sh
index 38c57de71b..7f605f865b 100755
--- a/t/t3200-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t3200-branch.sh
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ test_expect_success 'branch --delete --force removes dangling branch' '
 
 test_expect_success 'use --edit-description' '
 	EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description &&
-	test_must_fail git config branch.main.description &&
+	test_expect_code 1 git config branch.main.description &&
 
 	write_script editor <<-\EOF &&
 		echo "New contents" >"$1"
-- 
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