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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git status in clean working dir
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:30:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy73ur6pz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ttzeirft8.wl%bremner@pivot.cs.unb.ca> (David Bremner's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:13:55 -0300")

David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> writes:

> According to the manual page for git-status (version 1.5.6.3)
>
>        If there is no path that is different between the index file
>        and the current HEAD commit (i.e., there is nothing to commit
>        by running git-commit), the command exits with non-zero status.
>
> But it doesn't seem to work that way for me.
>
> git status -a 
>
> exits with 0
> ...

Try "git status -a >/dev/null" or "git --no-pager status -a".

I think this is an instance of the c8af1de (make git-status use a pager,
2008-04-23) stupidity raising its ugly head again.

Do people mind reverting that patch?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-22  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 23:13 git status in clean working dir David Bremner
2008-07-22  2:30 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-22  2:36   ` Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-07-22  2:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22  2:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22  4:44       ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  4:52         ` Jeff King
2008-07-22 11:24           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-22  4:41     ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  5:39       ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-22  6:06         ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  6:18           ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-22  6:46             ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  7:10               ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  7:12                 ` [PATCH 1/2] run-command: add pre-exec callback Jeff King
2008-07-22  7:14                   ` [PATCH 2/2] spawn pager via run_command interface Jeff King
2008-07-22  7:16                     ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  7:31                       ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-22  7:49                         ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  7:48                       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-22  7:50                         ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  8:29                           ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-22  9:17                 ` git status in clean working dir Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22  9:40                   ` Jeff King
2008-07-22 14:10           ` David Bremner
2008-07-22  7:34       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-22  7:46         ` Jeff King
2008-07-22  7:54           ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-24  6:56     ` Ask Bjørn Hansen
2008-07-24 16:54       ` Jeff King

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