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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Peter Valdemar Mørch" <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git log --check to return an appropriate error code
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:58:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vljz66mmt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218265054-19220-1-git-send-email-4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> (Peter Valdemar Mørch's message of "Sat, 9 Aug 2008 08:57:34 +0200")

Peter Valdemar Mørch  <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> writes:

> 	The return value is a bitfield, with |= 1 if HAS_CHANGES
> 	(clearly log has changes "always" - except e.g. "git log
> 	HEAD..HEAD")...

Is it clear?  "git log HEAD~20..HEAD -- path" where path never changes
within the range would be !HAS_CHANGES, wouldn't it?

Perhaps "git log --exit-code --raw A..B -- path" should give the same exit
status as '! test -z "$(git rev-list A..B -- path)"'?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-09 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-08  9:39 git diff/log --check exitcode and PAGER environment variable "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-08  9:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-08 10:04   ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-08 10:15   ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-08-08 11:02     ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-08 11:23       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-08 20:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-09  6:57         ` [PATCH] Teach git log --check to return an appropriate error code Peter Valdemar Mørch
2008-08-09 12:05           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-09 19:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-10 17:05               ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-08-10 18:40                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-09 18:58           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-08-11  6:46           ` PATCH v2 0/2 Trying patch again Peter Valdemar Mørch
2008-08-11  6:46             ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Teach git log --check to return an appropriate exit code Peter Valdemar Mørch
2008-08-11  6:46               ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach git log --exit-code " Peter Valdemar Mørch
2008-08-08 13:17   ` git diff/log --check exitcode and PAGER environment variable Jeff King
2008-08-08 13:19     ` Jeff King

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