Re: [PATCH] Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)

"Alex Riesen" [off-list ref] writes:

On 3/14/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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and people who have been learning from the scripts (we used to
have lot more scripts) would have picked up that pattern.
That's why I already told you that --exit-status is the right
thing to do if we were doing it from scratch, but is a wrong
thing to do at this point.  Maybe in a release as big as 1.5.0
that we pre-announce a lot of interface changes.

This is something I don't understand: why is a new option
--exit-code wrong?

Sorry, what I said was very confused (I sent out a
correction/clarification didn't I?).

In the ideal world we would sensibly make our diff to report
with its exit status.  Unfortunately we cannot for the above
backward compatibility worries, so a new option is an ugly
but necessary workaround.

On 3/14/07, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

In the ideal world we would sensibly make our diff to report
with its exit status.  Unfortunately we cannot for the above
backward compatibility worries, so a new option is an ugly
but necessary workaround.

right