On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:59:45PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > Callers who _are_ prepared to act on the exit code probably ought to > > just use --auto-exit-code in their invocation. > > > > That said, I'm not entirely opposed to the matching config. There's > > enough history here that somebody might want a sledgehammer setting to > > go back to the old behavior. > > If it's not a config option then as git is upgraded I'll need to change > my across-server invocation to be some variant of checking git version, > then etiher using the --auto-exit-code option or not (which'll error on > older gits). Easier to be able to just drop in a config setting before > the upgrade. Yeah, that's the "there's enough history here" that I was referring to, but I hadn't quite thought through a concrete example. That makes sense. (Though I also think the other part of the thread is reasonable, too, where we'd just have a command to abstract away "cat .git/gc.log" into "git gc --show-detached-log" or something). -Peff
