During the review process of the previous commit (repack: rewrite the
shell script in C), Johannes Sixt proposed to retain any exit codes from
the sub-process, which makes it probably more obvious in case of failure.
As the commit before should behave as close to the original shell
script, the proposed change is put in this extra commit.
The infrastructure however was already setup in the previous commit.
(Having a local 'ret' variable)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The motivation of this patch is to get closer to a goal of being
able to have a core subset of git functionality built in to git.
That would mean
* people on Windows could get a copy of at least the core parts
of Git without having to install a Unix-style shell
* people using git in on servers with chrooted environments
do not need to worry about standard tools lacking for shell
scripts.
This patch is meant to be mostly a literal translation of the
git-repack script; the intent is that later patches would start using
more library facilities, but this patch is meant to be as close to a
no-op as possible so it doesn't do that kind of thing.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
