Re: git status in clean working dir

[David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
    Jeff> We already do that (see pager.c:53). The original poster
    Jeff> still had a problem, but I don't know if it was for actual
    Jeff> usage or simply a toy

    Jeff>   $ git status 
    Jeff>   $ echo $?  
    Jeff>   $ echo "why don't exit codes work in status?" | mail git@vger

Well, I wanted to know if git status was the right tool to detect a
working directory with no changes to commit. So I tried it in the
shell, and it failed.  I then read the man page. For me, it would be
fine to document the current behaviour (i.e. in practice "git status
-a > /dev/null" would be what I would use in scripts anyway).  To be
honest the current behaviour was not something I would have guessed.

Thanks to all for paying attention to my complaint,

David