[PATCH 3/5] NEWS: cli exit status codes

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Thu May 1 07:42:00 PDT 2014


---
 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b635b46aeebc..74a68c573f03 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ Command-Line Interface
   Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
   user does not want it.
 
+The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
+
+  The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
+  except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
+  the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
+  support formatted output.
+
 Emacs Interface
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-- 
1.9.2



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