On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:58:10PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:31 PM Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
> > Actually, I guess we do not need to save $? at all, since we have only a
> > single process to care about. So even simpler:
> >
> > spatch ... 2>$@+ 2>$@.log ||
> > {
> > cat $@.log
> > exit 1
> > }
> > # if we get here, we were successful
> > mv $@+ $@ ;# etc
> >
> > would work. That's missing all the Makefile=required backslashes and
> > semicolons, of course. ;)
> >
>
> I opted to drop to just save the return, immediately after calling.
> It's a bit less code change, and I think the result is as clear as the
> above would be. This way we do drop the subshell, not that it matters
> much in the end...
Yeah. To be clear, I'm fine with any of the versions discussed in this
thread. Thanks for working on this!
-Peff
