On 28 July 2012 15:59, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm curious. Why is -1 (or 255) wrong? It was introduced in the first > version of get_value in 4ddba79 (git-config-set: add more options - > 2005-11-20). Back then it returned -1 when there's regex compile error > to distinguish with 0 and 1 (but git-config-set.txt in the same commit > did not get update about exit code). Maybe we should update document > instead of the code. > -- > Duy That sounds great. But the behavior now seems kind of strange, or maybe I'm missing something: # git config foobar; echo $? error: key does not contain a section: foobar 255 # git config foobar.info; echo $? 1 git version 1.7.11.2 I would generally expect the both to behave the same way. -- 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