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On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 09:51:50AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:
> 
> >   jw@raven:~/testrepos> git st
> >   # On branch master
> >   nothing to commit (working directory clean)
> I take it that you have "alias.st.cmd = status".

Yes, I'm still strongly tied to svn ;-)

> Observe what this gives you:
> 
>     $ git st; echo $?

1

> If you are running pre-1.7.0 version of git, I think "git status" was a
> synonym to "git commit --dry-run" and exited with non-zero status to
> signal the caller that there is nothing to commit, which is...

It's 1.6.4.2, so I guess you're right.

Thanks!