From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git commit silently fails
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 02:49:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260501064955.GA2706240@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a650d44b-1ab1-4a20-9b17-c82cea604acb@rawbw.com>
On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 01:39:35PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> But today git failed:
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git commit --verbose . -m
> "devel/catch2: update 3.13.0 → 3.14.0"
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ echo $?
> 1
> [yuri@yv /usr/ports/devel/catch2]$ /usr/local/bin/git --version
> git version 2.54.0
>
>
> No error messages, no verbose messages, just failure ...
> What might be wrong?
I can't reproduce the problem here, so a wild guess: do you have a pager
configured for the commit command (with pager.commit, for example)? That
could be eating all of the output (including stderr) if the pager
command fails to run.
-Peff
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2026-04-28 20:39 git commit silently fails Yuri
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