"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> > - finish "$new_head" "Fast forward" >> > + finish "$new_head" "Fast forward" || exit >> >> Doesn't "exit" default to "exit 0"? > > No, it carries the exit status of the prior failed command if the > prior command failed. ;-) > > For what its worth, I learned that only while hacking on git-merge. > I think it is highly non-obvious. Sorry to be a traditionalist. "sequence && of && commands || exit" is an established bourne shell idiom. I do not mind if somebody proposed to change that to "... || exit $?" to unconfuse uninitiated, though. - 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