From 52b4f704fd0d3f1ced8419cbcb460dd8374d8220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:26:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] builtin run_command: do not exit with -1.

The shell does not correctly detect an exit code of -1 as a failure.
We simply truncate the status code to the lower 8 bits.
---
 git.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index fd604b51fc..adbc188d86 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static int run_command(struct cmd_struct *p, int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	status = p->fn(argc, argv, prefix);
 	if (status)
-		return status;
+		return status & 0xff;
 
 	/* Somebody closed stdout? */
 	if (fstat(fileno(stdout), &st))