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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?