> > On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:33:54 PM MST Junio C Hamano wrote: > Wow, that's quite an old discussion ;-) It wasn't intended to be so > After these: <snip> > tells me that "--short" still does not notice that there _is_ > something to be committed, either with an ancient version like > v2.10.5 or more modern versions of Git. The "long" version exits > with 0, while "--short" one exists with 1. $ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $? A a-new-file 0 $ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $? A a-new-file 1 > > So...? For me it is the return code that is faulty .... Starting to investigate. Thanks