Ubuntu
git-extras package

git delete-branch did not work in case the called git config fails

Bug #1775592 reported by Martin Schaaf
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git-extras (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

using set -e
leads to a failing script in case git config returns a 1 as an error code
upstream has already a fix for it

See commit https://github.com/tj/git-extras/commit/fd2151f9bb837ca2c76b1441b6df5151546c4322#diff-774947abd9138b1798cc57d5e550cda2

Martin Schaaf (mascha)
summary: - git delete-branch did not work with latest git that return a an error
- code of 1 if git config did not return a value
+ git delete-branch did not work in case the called git config fails
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in git-extras (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Benjamin Bach (benjaoming) wrote :

Confirmed and quite annoying.

Yup, I've successfully built 4.6.0 after a uupdate on the current 4.5.0 released with Bionic. It fixes the problem.

There are other bug fixes in 4.6.0:

https://github.com/tj/git-extras/releases/tag/4.6.0

Since upstream Debian has already packaged 4.6.0, can we just pull that into the Bionic repo?

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