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From: "Michal Čihař" <michal@cihar.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git cat-file -e behavior
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:58:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D41645.4050800@cihar.com> (raw)

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Hi

the documentation for "git cat-file -e" says:

> Suppress all output; instead exit with zero status if <object> exists
and is a valid object.

However running it on non existing object will complain "fatal: Not a
valid object name".

$ git cat-file -e master:README.rst
$ echo $?
0
$ git cat-file -e master:foo
fatal: Not a valid object name master:foo
$ echo $?
128

Is the output in this case expected?

I'm currently running 2.7.0.

-- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com


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             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-29 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29  9:58 Michal Čihař [this message]
2016-02-29 11:44 ` git cat-file -e behavior Jeff King
2016-02-29 12:16   ` Michal Čihař
2016-02-29 12:36     ` Jeff King
2016-02-29 12:40   ` Jeff King

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