hg diff/status always returns zero?

Stephen Rasku mercurial at srasku.net
Wed May 6 18:43:25 CDT 2009


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 18:45, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>
> Another reason, which may be more important than this crontab issue is
> that the diff/stat commands have been returning 0 for a long time.
> If we change that now, it may break everyone's integration of these
> commands in their workflow, so such a change should be done with a lot
> of care and a great deal of forward warnings.  This way everybody will
> have time to adjust their derivative tools.

OK, fair enough.  As I understand it these commands will currently
return an exit code if there was an exception of some sort but for no
other reason.  Is that correct?

...Stephen



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