[PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: a note about stdout for git rev-parse --verify --quiet

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David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>

Date

Sep 15, 2014, 19:07 UTC

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Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
This patch is new: we now mention that stdout contains the valid object name
when --quiet is used, which may not be clear when reading this paragraph in
isolation.

 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 0b84769..fa4a8c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ can be used.
 	Only meaningful in `--verify` mode. Do not output an error
 	message if the first argument is not a valid object name;
 	instead exit with non-zero status silently.
+	SHA-1s for valid object names are printed to stdout on success.
 
 --sq::
 	Usually the output is made one line per flag and

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