On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:23 PM Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Miriam Rubio wrote: > > @@ -777,14 +777,14 @@ static void handle_bad_merge_base(void) > > "between %s and [%s].\n"), > > bad_hex, term_bad, term_good, bad_hex, good_hex); > > } > > - exit(3); > > + return -3; > > ... which is: what does `3` stand for? Maybe the question should have been answered by adding a comment to the previous patch that added the `exit(3)` statement. So yeah we could here add a separate patch that just adds such a comment. Or maybe we can add such a comment in this patch and say something like "while at it let's explain a bit the '3' error code" in the commit message.