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From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: error codes on exit
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 10:53:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMMLpeScunGg5WM4N90vG+yN3tOATqhsL2iRLsJ43ksNyTx_wQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60a5afeeb13b4_1d8f2208a5@natae.notmuch>

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:40 PM Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's good to not include many initial codes, but I would start with at
> least three:
>
>   OK = 0,
>   UNKNOWN = 1,
>   NORMAL = 2,

If you go that route, could you please pick a word other than "normal"
to describe errors that are not entirely unexpected? I'm worried that
someone will see "normal" and use it instead of "OK" to indicate
success.

-Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-21 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19 23:34 RFC: error codes on exit Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-20  0:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-21 16:53   ` Alex Henrie [this message]
2021-05-21 23:20     ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22  4:06       ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-22  8:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-22  9:08         ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22 21:22         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-22 21:29           ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22 21:53             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-22 23:02               ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22  9:12     ` Philip Oakley
2021-05-22 21:19       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-25 17:24         ` Alex Henrie
2021-05-25 18:43           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-20  0:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-20  1:19   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-20  1:55   ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-20  2:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-20 13:28 ` Jeff King
2021-05-20 17:47   ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-21  9:43     ` Jeff King
2021-05-20 15:09 ` Jeff Hostetler
2021-05-21  1:33   ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-21  1:20 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-26  8:21 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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