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From: Ian Kemp <ian.kemp@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Feature request: different exit codes for git stash depending on whether stash was created or not
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:55:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADZUK1cjvifbFYk9w6+vE95jgEBuwjoOi_1QfZHoPFBXuXHCCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Currently, git stash's exit code is 0 regardless of whether it
performed a stash operation or not. Third parties invoking git stash
are therefore unable to determine whether a stash was actually made or
not.

It would be helpful if there were different exit codes for the case
when a stash was created (working directory dirty) vs when a stash was
not (working dir clean). git stash create suffers from the same issue.

There are various workarounds for this e.g.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/34116244/70345 but they aren't
particularly pretty or reliable, hence this request.

Regards,
Ian

             reply	other threads:[~2019-09-27 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-27 12:55 Ian Kemp [this message]
2019-09-27 16:55 ` Feature request: different exit codes for git stash depending on whether stash was created or not Eric Sunshine
2019-09-27 23:07 ` brian m. carlson

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