git commit silently fails

YuriApr 28, 2026, 20:39 UTC on lore

Hi,

I was committing this way forever.

But today git failed: [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git commit --verbose . -m "devel/catch2: update 3.13.0 → 3.14.0" [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ echo $? 1 [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git --version git version 2.54.0

No error messages, no verbose messages, just failure ... What might be wrong?

OS: FreeBSD 15 STABLE amd64

Thanks, Yuri

Jeff KingMay 1, 2026, 06:49 UTC in reply to Yuri on lore

Re: git commit silently fails

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 01:39:35PM -0700, Yuri wrote:

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> But today git failed:
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git commit --verbose . -m
> "devel/catch2: update 3.13.0 → 3.14.0"
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ echo $?
> 1
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git --version
> git version 2.54.0
> 
> 
> No error messages, no verbose messages, just failure ...
> What might be wrong?

I can't reproduce the problem here, so a wild guess: do you have a pager configured for the commit command (with pager.commit, for example)? That could be eating all of the output (including stderr) if the pager command fails to run.

-Peff