Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit: exit non-zero if we fail to commit the index

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:42:27 -0800

Brandon Casey <[email-masked]> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Brandon Casey <[email-masked]> writes:
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>>>>  We would need to tell the user that the index is not where
>>>> it is when we detect the error, though.
>>> The new index we are trying to rename will be deleted.
>>> Are you saying we should 
>>>   warn the user that the index is now out of sync?
>> 
>> Yeah, something like that.  But I think that once this happens
>> there is no easy and sane recovery path for the user, as the
>> most likely cause of the failure there would be the user running
>> out of quota, so "git reset HEAD" which may be the way to
>> recover from that failure would not have enough room to create a
>> new index file anyway.
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> If you're interested, here's a patch.

Looks Ok from a quick glance.  I am mired at day job this week
so it may take a while for me to come up with a commit log
message though.