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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org,\r
+ david@tethera.net\r
+Subject: [PATCH 3/5] NEWS: cli exit status codes\r
+Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 17:42:00 +0300\r
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+ NEWS | 7 +++++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)\r
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+diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS\r
+index b635b46aeebc..74a68c573f03 100644\r
+--- a/NEWS\r
++++ b/NEWS\r
+@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ Command-Line Interface\r
+ Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the\r
+ user does not want it.\r
+ \r
++The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures\r
++\r
++ The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,\r
++ except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are\r
++ the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that\r
++ support formatted output.\r
++\r
+ Emacs Interface\r
+ ---------------\r
+ \r
+-- \r
+1.9.2\r
+\r