Subject: Re: [PATCH] wt-status.c: set commitable bit if there is a meaningful merge.

From: Stephen & Linda Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:28:14 -0700

> > On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:33:54 PM MST Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Wow, that's quite an old discussion ;-)
It wasn't intended to be so

> After these:
<snip>
> tells me that "--short" still does not notice that there _is_
> something to be committed, either with an ancient version like
> v2.10.5 or more modern versions of Git.  The "long" version exits
> with 0, while "--short" one exists with 1.

$ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $?
A  a-new-file
0

$ git commit --dry-run --short; echo $?
A  a-new-file
1

> So...?

For me it is the return code that is faulty  .... Starting to investigate.   
Thanks