diff: drop useless "status" parameter from diff_result_code()

Many programs use diff_result_code() to get a user-visible program exit
code from a diff result (e.g., checking opts.found_changes if
--exit-code was requested).

This function also takes a "status" parameter, which seems at first
glance that it could be used to propagate an error encountered when
computing the diff. But it doesn't work that way:

  - negative values are passed through as-is, but are not appropriate as
    program exit codes

  - when --exit-code or --check is in effect, we _ignore_ the passed-in
    status completely. So a failed diff which did not have a chance to
    set opts.found_changes would erroneously report "success, no
    changes" instead of propagating the error.

After recent cleanups, neither of these bugs is possible to trigger, as
every caller just passes in "0". So rather than fixing them, we can
simply drop the useless parameter instead.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index ee3eb629e3..2de5d3d098 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -6973,16 +6973,14 @@ void diffcore_std(struct diff_options *options)
 	options->found_follow = 0;
 }
 
-int diff_result_code(struct diff_options *opt, int status)
+int diff_result_code(struct diff_options *opt)
 {
 	int result = 0;
 
 	diff_warn_rename_limit("diff.renameLimit",
 			       opt->needed_rename_limit,
 			       opt->degraded_cc_to_c);
-	if (!opt->flags.exit_with_status &&
-	    !(opt->output_format & DIFF_FORMAT_CHECKDIFF))
-		return status;
+
 	if (opt->flags.exit_with_status &&
 	    opt->flags.has_changes)
 		result |= 01;