builtin run_command: do not exit with -1.
There are shells that do not correctly detect an exit code of -1 as a
failure. We simply truncate the status code to the lower 8 bits.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 4a250f7..37d99d6 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
status = p->fn(argc, argv, prefix);
if (status)
- return status;
+ return status & 0xff;
/* Somebody closed stdout? */
if (fstat(fileno(stdout), &st))
