From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: git bisect code 125 - "WFT?"
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:06:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikRttGnxex1CYSQnSg4PgctFj0-qNjf5un+fL0W@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1v267no9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Opinions? Would it be possible to change the meaning of the codes now
>> (in 1.8.0)?
>
> How about just documenting why it is a bad idea to use 126 or 127 as you
> found out somewhere, and stopping there, iow, without changing the code to
> use 126/127 that we consider it is a bad idea to use and avoided using so
> far?
Documenting it won't help. If you get 126 code, you won't know if user
returned it to mark the code as bad, or if bash returned it to say
that it can't
execute a command.
Of course if changing the meaning is out of option it's better to document
then not to document.
--
Piotr Krukowiecki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-16 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-16 20:44 git bisect code 125 - "WFT?" Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-16 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-16 22:06 ` Piotr Krukowiecki [this message]
2011-03-17 6:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-03-17 7:27 ` Jeff King
2011-03-17 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-19 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] git bisect run: exit code 126 and 127 abort the run Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-19 15:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] bisect documentation: exit codes 126,127 abort bisect Piotr Krukowiecki
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