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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: German Lashevich <german.lashevich@gmail.com>,  git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible git-diff bug when using exit-code with diff filters
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:17:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy1961sxf.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82561c70-ec33-41bf-b036-52310ffc1926@web.de> ("René Scharfe"'s message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:42:18 +0200")

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> You can more easily reproduce it by setting the environment variable
> GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF or the configuration setting diff.external -- no
> attributes needed.

Indeed.

A much simpler fix may be to declare that these two features are
imcompatible and fail the execution upfront, instead of just
silently ignoring one of the two options.

As a person who is very much used to the external diff not
contributing to the exit status (who also invented the external diff
driver interface), I would be a wrong person to judge if such a
simplified approach is desirable, of course, but just throwing it
out as a food for thought.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-21 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-20  1:13 Possible git-diff bug when using exit-code with diff filters German Lashevich
2024-04-21 10:42 ` René Scharfe
2024-04-21 18:17   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-04-21 18:32     ` rsbecker
2024-04-21 19:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-21 20:18         ` rsbecker
2024-05-05 10:19     ` René Scharfe
2024-05-06 17:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-05 10:19   ` [PATCH 1/2] diff: report unmerged paths as changes in run_diff_cmd() René Scharfe
2024-05-05 10:20   ` [PATCH 2/2] diff: fix --exit-code with external diff René Scharfe
2024-05-05 15:25     ` Phillip Wood
2024-05-06 17:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-05-06 18:23       ` René Scharfe
2024-05-08 15:25         ` phillip.wood123
2024-05-11 20:32           ` René Scharfe
2024-05-12  9:38             ` René Scharfe

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