Jeff King schrieb: > Junio's fixups should restore the automagic behavior, so you shouldn't > see any problems now, I think. But the run_command cleanup is sensible. Thanks. But it turns out that things are not /that/ trivial. We better live with Junio's fixup. > - while (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) < 0) { > - if (errno == EINTR) > - continue; > - return -1; > - } > - if (WIFEXITED(status)) { > - if (!WEXITSTATUS(status)) > - return 1; > - return 0; > - } > - return -1; > -} > - ... > + status = run_command_v_opt(argv, 0); ... > + return status == 0 ? 1 : -1; grep can return 0 (success, something found), 1 (nothing found), and other values for "real" failures like usage errors or crashes. This conditional throws the latter two into the same pot, which makes git-grep unable to distinguish "nothing found" from failure; cf. the call sites of flush_grep(), where want to set the flag 'hit'. -- Hannes -- 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