From: David Aguilar Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:07:39 GMT Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: a note about stdout for git rev-parse --verify --quiet Message-ID: <1410808059-1459-3-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1410808059-1459-2-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar --- 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 -- 2.1.0.30.g05c535b.dirty