Re: [PATCH v2] builtins + test helpers: use return instead of exit() in cmd_*

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> So it's really the opposite of what you're saying. If you have cleanups
> that are truly important, i.e. so important that you'd like to notify
> the user with a non-zero exit code if they fail, you *don't* want them
> in an atexit handler. That won't work.

Ah, OK.  What I had in mind was things like removing the directory
"clone" attempted to create and populate, removing temporary files,
etc.  when a function that is not marked as NORETURN calls die(), by
the atexit handler.  But you're right.  We leave a final clean-up
for normal returns (i.e. when cmd_foo() intends to return or exit
with 0) to be done to the caller that is git.::run_builtin().

Thanks.