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
prev parent 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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