From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:52:41 GMT
Subject: Re: v2.10.0: ls-tree exit status is always 0, this differs from ls(1)
Message-ID: <xmqqr38d9ova.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160921132655.h49HMsHbp%steffen@sdaoden.eu>

Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> writes:

> I think this behaviour contradicts the manual which strongly links
> ls-tree to ls(1):

Patches to the documentation is very much welcomed.

Somewhere the similarity must end, and actually it ends a lot
earlier, as "/bin/ls" takes exact paths while "ls-tree" (or any
other Git command for that matter) takes a pathspec pattern,
and not having a path that matches the pathspec pattern is not
an error condition.

Thanks.