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From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:43:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oarngw2b.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa937qqb7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:37:32 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail•com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
>>
>>> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail•com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> $ git help log | grep exit-code
>>>>            problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code.
>>>> $
>>>>
>>>> What --exit-code does in "git log"?
>>>
>>> It doesn't.  That is why it is not listed.
>>
>> Then, how can --check possibly interfer with it?
>
> The description is shared with "git diff" and friends, which is
> invoked via "git log -p".  As "log" does not give the exit code
> of individual "diff-tree" invocation for each commit, --exit-code
> option is irrelevant.

Do you agree there is some minor problem here? First, "git log"
silently eats the --exit-code option that does nothing. Next, git-log
manual page doesn't include --exit-log description while refers to it
elsewhere. What's proposed resulution?

-- 
Sergey.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-01 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-01 11:50 [BUG] Documentation: git log: --exit-code undocumented? Sergey Organov
2014-12-01 16:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01 16:32   ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-01 16:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01 16:43       ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2014-12-01 17:32   ` David Kastrup
2014-12-01 17:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-01 18:30       ` David Kastrup
2014-12-02 11:30       ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-02 12:27         ` John Keeping

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