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| -rwxr-xr-x | git-difftool.perl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl index bd828c2a6f..ba5e60a45e 100755 --- a/git-difftool.perl +++ b/git-difftool.perl @@ -82,5 +82,11 @@ sub generate_command } setup_environment(); + +# ActiveState Perl for Win32 does not implement POSIX semantics of +# exec* system call. It just spawns the given executable and finishes +# the starting program, exiting with code 0. +# system will at least catch the errors returned by git diff, +# allowing the caller of git difftool better handling of failures. my $rc = system(generate_command()); exit($rc | ($rc >> 8)); |