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authorLibravatar Michele Locati <michele@locati.it>2018-03-15 18:09:18 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-03-15 10:41:51 -0700
commit0a0eb2e585788567094248652fc20450a0db642b (patch)
tree69e102a753ff6042747c5466dae8f58bfa2081a1 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix' into maint (diff)
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filter-branch: return 2 when nothing to rewrite
Using the --state-branch option allows us to perform incremental filtering. This may lead to having nothing to rewrite in subsequent filtering, so we need a way to recognize this case. So, let's exit with 2 instead of 1 when this "error" occurs. Signed-off-by: Michele Locati <michele@locati.it> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 3a52e4dce3..b634043183 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -222,6 +222,14 @@ this purpose, they are instead rewritten to point at the nearest ancestor that
was not excluded.
+EXIT STATUS
+-----------
+
+On success, the exit status is `0`. If the filter can't find any commits to
+rewrite, the exit status is `2`. On any other error, the exit status may be
+any other non-zero value.
+
+
Examples
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