From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented? Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:32:26 +0100 Message-ID: <874mtfl1hx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87zjb78u7g.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Sergey Organov , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 01 18:32:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XvUpt-0001Jg-Dh for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:32:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753330AbaLARc3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:32:29 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:38743 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752900AbaLARc2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:32:28 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37784 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvUpn-0003xn-6Q; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:32:27 -0500 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB948E0A95; Mon, 1 Dec 2014 18:32:26 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:29:18 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > Sergey Organov 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