David Bremner <bremner@xxxxxx> writes: > 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 > ... Try "git status -a >/dev/null" or "git --no-pager status -a". I think this is an instance of the c8af1de (make git-status use a pager, 2008-04-23) stupidity raising its ugly head again. Do people mind reverting that patch? -- 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