From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:32:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mtfl1hx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqegsjqqox.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:29:18 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> $ git help log | grep exit-code
>> problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code.
>> $
>>
>> What --exit-code does in "git log"?
>
> It doesn't. That is why it is not listed.
I disagree that --exit-code does nothing: it indicates whether the
listed log is empty. So for example
git log -1 --exit-code a..b > /dev/null
can be used to figure out whether "a" is a proper ancestor of "b" or
not.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-01 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-01 11:50 [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented? Sergey Organov
2014-12-01 16:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01 16:32 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-01 16:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01 16:43 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-01 17:32 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-12-01 17:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01 18:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-02 11:30 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-02 12:27 ` John Keeping
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