Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> David Aguilar wrote:
>>  diff_cmd () {
>> -       merge_tool_cmd="$(get_merge_tool_cmd "$1")"
>> -       if test -z "$merge_tool_cmd"
>> -       then
>> -               status=1
>> -               break
>> -       fi
>> -       ( eval $merge_tool_cmd )
>> -       status=$?
>> +       status=1
>>         return $status
>>  }
>
> Nit: Why not return 1, instead of setting $status and returning it?

Perhaps because the caller "run_merge_tool" pays attention to
$status that is a global variable?

Have you traced the call chain?
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