Re: [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sergey Organov <sorganov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> $ git help log | grep exit-code
>>            problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code.
>> $
>>
>> What --exit-code does in "git log"?
>
> It doesn't.  That is why it is not listed.

I disagree that --exit-code does nothing: it indicates whether the
listed log is empty.  So for example

git log -1 --exit-code a..b > /dev/null

can be used to figure out whether "a" is a proper ancestor of "b" or
not.

-- 
David Kastrup
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