On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:02:50 +0200 "Manuela Hutter" <manuelah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > we have some python scripts that are run from Visual Studio, and one > of them fails because of a wrong git return code when calling > 'git describe --dirty' [...] > Run from wingw, the return code is 0. > Run from cmd, the return code is 1. > > Why? Supposedly, when you run Git from cmd.exe, the git.cmd top-level script (which wraps the git.exe binary) gets executed, and it's currently affected by this bug [1] (fixed). When you run Git from Git bash, the git.exe binary runs directly and hence the bug is not exposed. 1. https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/43 -- 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