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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GIT-VERSION-GEN tolerate missing git describe command
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa () zytor ! com>
Date: 2005-12-31 0:15:30
Message-ID: 43B5CDA2.5050408 () zytor ! com
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John Ellson wrote:
> John Ellson wrote:
>
>> I think it is probably a bug that "git non_existent_command"
>> returns its error message to stdout without an error, where
>> "git-non_existent_command" behaves differently and does return an
>> error.
>
>
> BTW. Its the old shell-script version of "git" that fails to return an
> error on non_existent_commands. The newer C version of "git"
> correctly returns an error code.
>
> The reason that this is a sufficiently serious problem to require a fix
> is that the broken version of "git" is in the
> git-core-0.99.9a-2.fc5.i386.rpm that is currently in Fedora Core Extras
> development.
>
It has been fixed. What's broken is that Fedora Extras still contains
0.99.9a which is totally ancient.
-hpa
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