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[Quilt-dev] [patch 22/26] Wordsmith Exit Status section.


From: g . branden . robinson
Subject: [Quilt-dev] [patch 22/26] Wordsmith Exit Status section.
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:54 -0400
User-agent: quilt/0.65

* Eliminate otherwise unused term "sub-command".

Index: quilt/doc/quilt.1.in
===================================================================
--- quilt.orig/doc/quilt.1.in
+++ quilt/doc/quilt.1.in
@@ -201,15 +201,17 @@ internal operations.
 .B \\-\\-version
 prints the version number and exits.
 .SH "EXIT STATUS"
-The exit status is 0 if the sub-command was successfully executed, and
-1 in case of error.
+The exit status is 0 if the requested operation completed successfully,
+or 1 in case of error.
 .PP
-An exit status of 2 denotes that
+An exit status of 2 indicates that
 .I quilt
 did not do anything to complete the command.
-This happens in particular when asking to push when the whole stack is
-already pushed, or asking to pop when the whole stack is already popped.
-This behavior is intended to ease the scripting around
+This happens in particular when asking
+.I quilt
+to push when the whole stack is already pushed, or to pop when the whole
+stack is already popped.
+This behavior is intended to ease scripting with
 .IR quilt .
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 In addition to that,




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