On Sun, Sep 16 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:56 PM Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> * jn/gc-auto (2018-07-17) 3 commits
>>  - gc: do not return error for prior errors in daemonized mode
>>  - gc: exit with status 128 on failure
>>  - gc: improve handling of errors reading gc.log
>>
>>  "gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been
>>  corrected to use exit(1).  Also the error reporting behaviour when
>>  daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping
>>  due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no
>>  point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with
>>  failure in such a case.
>>
>>  What's the donness of this one?
>>  cf. <[email protected]>
>
> This topic has stayed in 'pu' for a long time. I thought it was
> concluded that this was a good change? Jeff, Jonathan?

There's still outstanding feedback on it, including my:
https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/

I think it would be great to merge [12]/3 down, and have a re-submission
of 3/3 stand-alone, once that's merged down, so we can untangle
obviously correct bugfixes ([12]/3) with meaningful changes in exit code
behavior (3/3).

Reply via email to