From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 10:58:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191105185845.GA94320@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191105185322.205317-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>
Jonathan Tan wrote:
> I think it's less error-prone if we always have a "git" command on its
> own on a line, to avoid losing its error code. When piped into another
> invocation, or when command-substituted into an argument (e.g. "echo
> $(git hash-object foo)"), we lose its error code.
Sure, but assignment is a special case:
if myvar=$(false)
then
echo yes
else
echo no
fi
prints "no".
See "Don't use command substitution in a way that discards git's exit
code" in t/README for more details.
Thanks,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-05 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-01 20:38 [PATCH] fetch: remove fetch_if_missing=0 Jonathan Tan
2019-11-01 22:05 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-11-02 5:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-02 6:11 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-11-02 5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-05 18:53 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-11-05 18:58 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2019-11-05 18:56 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Tan
2019-11-05 20:06 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-11-06 1:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-08 6:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-08 7:40 ` Junio C Hamano
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