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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:15:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43B5CDA2.5050408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dp41ve$v7r$1@sea.gmane.org>

John Ellson wrote:
> John Ellson wrote:
> 
>> I think it is probably a bug that "git non_existent_command"
>> returns its error message to stdout without an error, where
>> "git-non_existent_command" behaves differently and does return an
>> error.
> 
> 
> BTW.  Its the old shell-script version of "git" that fails to return an 
> error on non_existent_commands.    The newer C version of "git" 
> correctly returns an error code.
> 
> The reason that this is a sufficiently serious problem to require a fix 
> is that the broken version of "git" is in the 
> git-core-0.99.9a-2.fc5.i386.rpm that is currently in Fedora Core Extras 
> development.
> 

It has been fixed.  What's broken is that Fedora Extras still contains 
0.99.9a which is totally ancient.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-31  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-30 16:23 [PATCH] Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command John Ellson
2005-12-30 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-30 19:12   ` John Ellson
2005-12-30 19:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-30 19:31 ` John Ellson
2005-12-31  0:15   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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