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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow git-diff exit with codes similar to diff(1)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:46:11 +0100
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On 3/14/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> In the ideal world we would sensibly make our diff to report
> with its exit status.  Unfortunately we cannot for the above
> backward compatibility worries, so a new option is an ugly
> but necessary workaround.

right