Re: git status in clean working dir

David Bremner [off-list ref] 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?

At 2008-07-21 19:30:16 -0700, gitster@pobox.com wrote:

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?

I think that is an excellent idea. I've found myself annoyed time and
again by "git status" starting the pager for just a couple of lines of
output.

-- ams