extdata: abort if external command exits with non-zero status (BC)
Per the last discussion, this is more reliable and consistent way than
suppressing an error. For grep, erroring out might be inconvenient, but
for curl, non-zero exit status should be detected. The latter wouldn't be
possible if non-zero status is ignored.
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2017-October/105727.html
$ hg init
$ touch a
$ unset HGUSER
$ echo "[ui]" >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo "username= foo" >> .hg/hgrc
$ echo " bar1" >> .hg/hgrc
$ hg ci -Am m
adding a
abort: username 'foo\nbar1' contains a newline
[255]
$ rm .hg/hgrc
$ HGUSER=`(echo foo; echo bar2)` hg ci -Am m
adding a
abort: username 'foo\nbar2' contains a newline
[255]
$ hg ci -Am m -u "`(echo foo; echo bar3)`"
adding a
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: username 'foo\nbar3' contains a newline!
[255]