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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail•com>,
	l.s.r@web•de, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailsplit.c: remove dead code
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:56:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqd2c5z81w.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvbpx4cd6.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:38:45 -0700")

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

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr> writes:
>
>> Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail•com> writes:
>>
>>> +	if (is_bare && !allow_bare) {
>>> +		unlink(name);
>>> +		fprintf(stderr, "corrupt mailbox\n");
>>> +		exit(1);
>>> +	}
>>
>> Not directly related to your patch, but shouldn't this be using
>>
>> die(_("corrupt mailbox"));
>>
>> instead?
>
> Doesn't the exit status of mailsplit matter to its existing
> invokers?

Not within Git. I doubt anybody checks if the exit status is 1 and
relies on that for corrupt mailboxes, but OTOH, changing the code may
not be worth the trouble.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11 21:11 [PATCH] mailsplit.c: remove dead code Stefan Beller
2014-08-12 16:38 ` René Scharfe
2014-08-12 21:21   ` Stefan Beller
2014-08-12 21:37     ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-12 21:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-12 21:50         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-12 21:56         ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-08-12 22:58     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-08-17  8:14   ` Jeff King

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