From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:33:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug in 'git status' exit code is 1 instead of 0
Message-ID: <e5bfff550701091033x51496b38x6c6f798e8a7ae795@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcv0m5md.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 1/9/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "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