Re: [RFC PATCH] bisect run: allow inverting meaning of exit code

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stephen Oberholtzer <stevie@qrpff.net> writes:

> ... a clean, portable way to create a single case statement that
> handles the final condition.

Hmm, don't we want to say (1) original 0 (success) maps to 1 (2)
original 125 maps to 125 (3) anything below 128 in the original maps
to 0 and (4) everything else is left intact?  Perhaps something as
simple like this, taking advantage of the fact that $? won't have
anything other than digits?

    ... do something ...
    status=$?

    case $status in
    0) status=1 ;;
    125) : as-is ;;
    ? | ?? | 1[01]? | 12[0-7]) status=0;;
    *) : as-is ;;
    esac

I am still unclear where the need for {SUCCESS_FAIL}_TERM magic
comes from, though.