Re: Man pages lack of exit status information

["Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> El 17/4/2008, a las 9:45, Francis Moreau escribió:
> > I checked on a couple of git commands' man pages and I couldn't find
> > the exit status of these commands.
> >
> > For example: git-status, git-diff man pages don't tell anything.
> >
> > Am I missing something ?
> >
>
>  The "git-diff" man page documents this under the --exit-code option. It
> probably would be nice to have an "EXIT STATUS" section added to the man
> pages of those commands for which it would be interesting (like "git-diff")
> and perhaps to the main "git" man page as well (with general info).
>
>  If there is interest in this I'll whip up a doc patch.
>

I think it makes sense to have such section specially since git plumbings are
also designed to be used in higher level scripts.

I really use to searching for RETURN VALUE section in man pages when I need
what a command returns. And it's a pain to have to read the whole man page for
finding such important information.

Thanks
-- 
Francis