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Re: Possible bug in 'git status' exit code is 1 instead of 0

From
MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 9, 2007, 18:33 UTC
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On 1/9/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > bash-3.1$ pwd
> > /home/marco/programmi/git
> > bash-3.1$ git status; echo $?
> > # On branch refs/heads/origin
> > nothing to commit (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)
> > 1
> > bash-3.1$ git --version
> > git version 1.5.0.rc0.g244a7
>
> I think that's normal and has been the way for git-commit to
> detect if there is anything to commit.
>
>

Ok, I was changing the error detection to check exit status, but it's definitely better to still check for something written to stdErr instead.

Thanks Marco

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