On Oct 21, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Jeff King wrote: > We already detect invalid input to these functions, but we > simply exit with an error code, never saying anything as > simple as "your input was wrong". Let's fix that. > > Before: > > $ git diff -CM > $ echo $? > 128 > > After: > > $ git diff -CM > error: invalid argument to -C: M > $ echo $? > 128 > > There should be no problems with having diff_opt_parse print > to stderr, as there is already precedent in complaining > about bogus --color and --output arguments. Thank you. I've had a note to myself to fix this for the past month, and still haven't gotten around to it. Glad to see that procrastinating pays off! ;) -Kevin Ballard-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html