Re: Possible bug in 'git status' exit code is 1 instead of 0

On 1/9/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Marco Costalba" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

bash-3.1$ pwd
/home/marco/programmi/git
bash-3.1$ git status; echo $?
# On branch refs/heads/origin
nothing to commit (use "git add file1 file2" to include for commit)
1
bash-3.1$ git --version
git version 1.5.0.rc0.g244a7

I think that's normal and has been the way for git-commit to
detect if there is anything to commit.

Ok, I was changing the error detection to check exit status, but it's
definitely better to still check for something written to stdErr
instead.

Thanks
Marco