From: Josh Hunt <johunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Currently git branch --list foo always returns an exit status of 0 even
when the branch being searched for does not exist. Now an error is printed
and returns a non-zero exit status.
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
branch: return error when --list finds no matches
Currently git branch --list foo always returns an exit status of 0 even
when the branch being searched for does not exist. Now an error is
printed and returns a non-zero exit status.
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt johunt@xxxxxxxxxx
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-892%2Fjoshuahunt%2Fjohunt%2Fgit-branch-list-return-error-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-892/joshuahunt/johunt/git-branch-list-return-error-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/892
builtin/branch.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index bcc00bcf182d..5573175734fe 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -426,6 +426,8 @@ static void print_ref_list(struct ref_filter *filter, struct ref_sorting *sortin
memset(&array, 0, sizeof(array));
filter_refs(&array, filter, filter->kind | FILTER_REFS_INCLUDE_BROKEN);
+ if (!array.nr)
+ die(_("no branches found"));
if (filter->verbose)
maxwidth = calc_maxwidth(&array, strlen(remote_prefix));
base-commit: ec125d1bc1053df7e4103f71ebd24fe48dd624a2
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