Re: fatal from submodule status --recursive when used with grep -q

[phillip.wood123@gmail.com]

Hi Matt

[please reply in-line to avoid breaking the flow of the conversation]

On 19/09/2024 21:10, Matt Liberty wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 12:40 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>>
>> Regarding the exit code, it's not even clear how that factors into
>> this discussion considering that, in the presented example,
>> git-submodule is upstream of a pipe, thus its exit code is lost
>> anyhow.
 >
 > The exit code matters if you do "set -euo pipefail".

When you use "grep -q" you know that if it is successful the upstream 
commands in the pipeline are likely to receive SIGPIPE. Therefore if you 
want to use "-o pipefail" to check that they do not fail unexpectedly 
you need to remap the exit code associated with SIGPIPE to zero. 
Something like [1]

	hide_sigpipe() {
		status=$?
		test $status -eq 141 && exit 0
		exit $status
	}
	(yes; hide_sigpipe) | grep -q y


I've posted a patch[2] that fixes the error message you were seeing.

Best Wishes

Phillip

[1] 
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/582844/how-to-suppress-sigpipe-in-bash
[2] 
https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1799.git.1726837642511.gitgitgadget@gmail.com