"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I understand your point. The problem is that in git there isn't an > unique way to test success/fail for any command, as example, regarding > checking the exit status: > > $ git status; echo $? > # On branch master > nothing to commit (working directory clean) > 1 That is a bad example, with a slight historical background. When you say "git status $args", you are asking the command this question. I am contemplating to issue "git commit $args", but will there actually be changes if I issued that command? When there will be no changes staged with the given $args (in your case that happens to be empty), there won't be anything to be committed if you issued "git commit $args" at that point. The command answers "Eh, by issuing 'git commit' you will get an 'Nothing to commit', which is an error" --- and that is reported with its exit status. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
