The C standard specifies two constants, EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE, that may be passed to exit() to indicate successful or unsuccessful termination, respectively. The value of status in exit(status) may be EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE, or any other value, though only the least significant 8 bits (that is, status & 0377) shall be available to a waiting parent proces. So exit(-1) return 255. Use the C standard EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE to indicate the program exit status instead of "0" or "1", respectively. In <stdlib.h> EXIT_FAILURE has the value "1": use EXIT_FAILURE even if the program uses exit(-1), ie 255, for consistency. Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/show-branch.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/show-branch.c b/builtin/show-branch.c index 330b0553b9..04a99aa7b2 100644 --- a/builtin/show-branch.c +++ b/builtin/show-branch.c @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ int cmd_show_branch(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix) if (!ref_name_cnt) { fprintf(stderr, "No revs to be shown.\n"); - exit(0); + exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } for (num_rev = 0; ref_name[num_rev]; num_rev++) { @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ int cmd_show_branch(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix) } } if (extra < 0) - exit(0); + exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); /* Sort topologically */ sort_in_topological_order(&seen, sort_order); -- 2.35.1