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Re: [PATCH] Fix history deletion when using negative offsets (from the e
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [PATCH] Fix history deletion when using negative offsets (from the end) |
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Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:31:59 -0500 |
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On 2/26/21 4:38 PM, Christopher Gurnee wrote:
I would assume that this is implied by "start-end".
I agree with you, and I think the documentation is fine. I was just
pointing out that specifying an invalid start/end element results in an
error and an exit status of 1, but specifying an invalid end-start range
results in silence and an exit status of 0, which I think is a bit unexpected.
I think it's fair to return 1 in the case of an invalid range, and to
document it.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/