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+From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] nmbug: Add a git_with_status helper function\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
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+> Sometimes we want to catch Git errors and handle them, instead of\r
+> dying with an error message. This lower-level version of git() allows\r
+> us to get the error status when we want it.\r
+\r
+pushed this one patch.\r
+\r
+d\r