From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 01:29:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/29] grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 tests
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In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX4MK8=YixozpbPjJh1JxHcFr9x6GoXJeA34E-qLn6ZSDw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>> It somehow was unintuitive that 0 expected failure and 1 expected
>> success, but it probably was just me.
>
> Except this. The wildmatch uses the same idiom, and I think it makes
> sense. 1 = true, 0 = false, ... when all we wanted was
> "does this match".

OK.  Makes perfect sense (it would have been even easier to
understand if the variable was not $status but $matches or
something).