According to the manual page for git-status (version 1.5.6.3) If there is no path that is different between the index file and the current HEAD commit (i.e., there is nothing to commit by running git-commit), the command exits with non-zero status. But it doesn't seem to work that way for me. git status -a exits with 0 but git commit -a exits with 1 Is the man page wrong, or is this a bug? Or, option #3 ? David P.S. Please CC me. I'm not on the list. -- 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