[darcs-users] Meaningful exit-codes for scripting?

[Norbert Nemec]

On Saturday 23 October 2004 13:43, David Roundy wrote:
> I think Mark's idea is best.  I prefer to have a nonzero exit code always
> indicate failure of one sort or another.  Hmmmm.  I suppose you could
> consider that since no record was actually performed, this was a failure,
> but it doesn't quite seem like a failure to me...

Sounds reasonable.

> darcs whatsnew does return failure if there are no changes, so you could
> also run a whatsnew first and based on its return value decide whether to
> record and tag.

That's just the kind of answer I was looking for! Is this behavior documented? 
(I.e. should I have found it myself?)


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