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[PATCH] git-submodule: Error messages from 'git describe' shouldn't end up on the terminal

From
EMEmil Medve <emilian.medve@freescale.com>
Date
Jul 25, 2007, 14:21 UTC
Message-ID
<11853733111502-git-send-email-Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>

As of now a failure to locate the closest tag to a commit (e.g because there is no tag in the repository) is handled explicitly by displaying an 'undefined' tag error message. However when git describe fails it will still display an undesirable "fatal: cannot describe SHA1" message. This patch hides that message as git-submodule has an alternative and explicit error handling method in place for this situation

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 1f0cb99..3804f18 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ modules_list()
 			say "-$sha1 $path"
 			continue;
 		fi
-		revname=$(unset GIT_DIR && cd "$path" && git describe --tags $sha1)
+		revname=$(unset GIT_DIR && cd "$path" && git describe --tags $sha1 2>/dev/null)
 		set_name_rev "$path" "$sha1"
 		if git diff-files --quiet -- "$path"
 		then
-- 
1.5.3.rc2.38.g11308-dirty
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  1. git-submodule: Error messages from 'git describe' shouldn't end up on the terminalEmil Medve, Jul 25, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2007

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