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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: report bogus input to -C/-M/-B
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:53:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101021165340.GE3732@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101021144947.GA18210@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> Before:
> 
>   $ git diff -CM
>   $ echo $?
>   128
> 
> After:
> 
>   $ git diff -CM
>   error: invalid argument to -C: M
>   $ echo $?
>   128

Yes, please.

Who is it that exits(128) in this code path?  Are there other
functions it calls that might return an error without reporting it to
stderr?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-21 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-21 14:49 [PATCH] diff: report bogus input to -C/-M/-B Jeff King
2010-10-21 16:53 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-21 17:07   ` Jeff King
2010-10-21 20:37 ` Kevin Ballard

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