Hi,
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> >> > Or maybe even better: set a variable "ret" and at the end of
> >> > cmd_config(), "return !!ret;"?
> >>
> >> Huh? So git commands don't return negative error values?
> >
> > AFAICT an exit status is supposed to be between 0 and 127.
>
> Are you two talking about the return value from cmd_config()?
>
> git.c::run_builtin() already knows what to do with status codes from the
> builtins to protect you from (rare) shells that do not cope with a
> negative return that come from the common pattern of doing:
>
> return error("it is wrong in this way")
>
> So "negative" is not really a problem.
Ooops. I missed that.
Ciao,
Dscho
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