"R. Diez" <[email protected]> writes:
>> So as far as Automake-generated rules are concerned, I'd expect
>> "errexit" to be generally safe to enable.
>
> That is a first step. I would also guess that enabling "pipefail"
> should be similarly unproblematic.
Well, sure, it you want something like:
last-two-commits:
git log --oneline | head -n 2
to start failing (or not, depending on how many commit you have and how
large you pipe buffer is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). pipefail is situational at best
and I am somewhat skeptical about enabling it by default.
Tomas
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