From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mike Coleman" Subject: bug: git-diff silently fails when run outside of a repository (v1.5.4.2) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:04:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3c6c07c20804291304n36976417wf3c2a13303aa3133@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 29 22:06:15 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jqw4q-0000vR-Sa for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:05:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759264AbYD2UEf (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:04:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759174AbYD2UEe (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:04:34 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]:31680 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759059AbYD2UEd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:04:33 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m16so220884waf.23 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:04:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=APg569XYZwDXsNgpRWePE754K+8pnjdvXthorzjjffM=; b=rsdufBvFLkvsdDqFkSvrY7wv91GScGphKPZUj91fMW8b241r7TC95kPujoLxtTFSABS9+4WoszFdUio5z0MTP2i7YqsY0hoPmBcKUrdAWImZ4JS4v3qhzKUR19Li3ndn3D3iQNOuLvsWi/9nsBw/nh3qoJINcC+y17/3zbRnQHM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=fyDwXiitmuUrgRqJxfP/hJabgr8nCpvFFnd6KskszI80PuflDePJjWWb29geYF+iPQSEps33Xaz+1wBKvn+mUuiBaYA7f2h2mioKxSVbfrnEbfD509LOtuQdV7Crg4pu8YGk+gSAGEAU4vrELA6UOgvBwgpgD6sNYzY7YQ5KB3E= Received: by 10.114.126.1 with SMTP id y1mr5080760wac.41.1209499472451; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.92.7 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: At least in version 1.5.4.2, git-diff silently fails when not run inside a repository. It should give an error diagnostic, especially since "no output" would otherwise be a meaningful response. I think there are other git programs that have this problem as well. Mike