From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:37:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented?
Message-ID: <xmqqa937qqb7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87wq6bgwl6.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> $ git help log | grep exit-code
>>>            problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code.
>>> $
>>>
>>> What --exit-code does in "git log"?
>>
>> It doesn't.  That is why it is not listed.
>
> Then, how can --check possibly interfer with it?

The description is shared with "git diff" and friends, which is
invoked via "git log -p".  As "log" does not give the exit code
of individual "diff-tree" invocation for each commit, --exit-code
option is irrelevant.