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[Quilt-dev] [patch 22/26] Wordsmith Exit Status section.
From: |
g . branden . robinson |
Subject: |
[Quilt-dev] [patch 22/26] Wordsmith Exit Status section. |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:54 -0400 |
User-agent: |
quilt/0.65 |
* Eliminate otherwise unused term "sub-command".
Index: quilt/doc/quilt.1.in
===================================================================
--- quilt.orig/doc/quilt.1.in
+++ quilt/doc/quilt.1.in
@@ -201,15 +201,17 @@ internal operations.
.B \\-\\-version
prints the version number and exits.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
-The exit status is 0 if the sub-command was successfully executed, and
-1 in case of error.
+The exit status is 0 if the requested operation completed successfully,
+or 1 in case of error.
.PP
-An exit status of 2 denotes that
+An exit status of 2 indicates that
.I quilt
did not do anything to complete the command.
-This happens in particular when asking to push when the whole stack is
-already pushed, or asking to pop when the whole stack is already popped.
-This behavior is intended to ease the scripting around
+This happens in particular when asking
+.I quilt
+to push when the whole stack is already pushed, or to pop when the whole
+stack is already popped.
+This behavior is intended to ease scripting with
.IR quilt .
.SH ENVIRONMENT
In addition to that,
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 17/26] Tighten summary., (continued)
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 17/26] Tighten summary., g . branden . robinson, 2018/06/16
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 20/26] Wordsmith Description section., g . branden . robinson, 2018/06/16
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 25/26] Make file tree diagram portable., g . branden . robinson, 2018/06/16
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 26/26] Rewrite discussion of QUILT_COLORS configuration variable., g . branden . robinson, 2018/06/16
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 19/26] Sort options in alphabetical order to ease human scanning., g . branden . robinson, 2018/06/16
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 22/26] Wordsmith Exit Status section.,
g . branden . robinson <=
- [Quilt-dev] [patch 24/26] Wordsmith Files section., g . branden . robinson, 2018/06/16