John Keeping <j...@keeping.me.uk> writes: > At the moment difftool's "trust exit code" logic always suppresses the > exit status of the diff utility we invoke. This is useful because we > don't want to exit just because diff returned "1" because the files > differ, but it's confusing if the shell returns an error because the > selected diff utility is not found. > > POSIX specifies 127 as the exit status for "command not found" and 126 > for "command found but is not executable" [1] and at least bash and dash > follow this specification, while diff utilities generally use "1" for > the exit status we want to ignore. > > Handle 126 and 127 as special values, assuming that they always mean > that the command could not be executed.
Sounds like a reasonable thing to do. Will queue; thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
