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From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
Subject: git status in clean working dir
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:13:55 -0300
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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

but 

git commit -a 

exits with 1

Is the man page wrong, or is this a bug? Or, option #3 ?

David

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