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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>
Cc: "David Turner" <dturner@twopensource•com>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco•com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail•com>,
	"Jacob Keller" <jacob.keller@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] refs: make refs/worktree/* per-worktree
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:10:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpp2piyo3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55CDA445.9090503@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:18:13 +0200")

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu> writes:

> I don't see how that can help. The result of a pipeline is taken from
> the last command. The exit codes of earlier commands in the pipeline are
> lost in the sands of time:
>
>     $ false | true
>     $ echo $?
>     0
>     $ false | ( ! false )
>     $ echo $?
>     0
>
> Working around this POSIX shell limitation is surprisingly awkward in a
> general-purpose script. But in this case you could use a temporary file:
>
>     git for-each-ref >refs-actual &&
>     ! grep refs/worktree <refs-actual && [...]

It is not just "you could", but that is what you "should" do, if you
cared the exit status from for-each-ref.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-14 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-12 21:57 [PATCH v3 1/4] refs: clean up common_list David Turner
2015-08-12 21:57 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] path: optimize common dir checking David Turner
2015-08-12 22:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-13  9:05   ` Michael Haggerty
2015-08-14 17:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-14 20:04       ` David Turner
2015-08-14 20:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-14 20:54           ` David Turner
2015-08-15 18:20         ` Michael Haggerty
2015-08-15 18:12       ` Michael Haggerty
2015-08-17 15:55         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-15  7:59   ` Duy Nguyen
2015-08-16  5:04     ` David Turner
2015-08-16 12:20       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-08-12 21:57 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] refs: make refs/worktree/* per-worktree David Turner
2015-08-13 17:15   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-08-13 17:41     ` David Turner
2015-08-13 20:16       ` Michael Haggerty
2015-08-13 20:32         ` David Turner
2015-08-14  8:18           ` Michael Haggerty
2015-08-14 17:10             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-08-15  8:04   ` Duy Nguyen
2015-08-12 21:57 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] bisect: make bisection refs per-worktree David Turner
2015-08-15  7:44 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] refs: clean up common_list Duy Nguyen

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