Git status exit status ?
2008-03-15
1 $ git status
2 # On branch master
3 nothing to commit (working directory clean)
4 $ echo $?
5 1
Shouldn’t a successful git status in a git repository return a status code of 0 ? Doing it in a random folder returns a sensible value:
1 $ git status
2 fatal: Not a git repository
3 Failed to find a valid git directory.
4 $ echo $?
5 128
Can anybody shed some light on this ?
I found Possible bug in ‘git status’ exit code is 1 instead of 0. What is the rational for this ? It goes against everything Unix ?!?
