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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Apr 22, 2007, 08:15 UTC
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<20070422081556.GJ17480@spearce.org>
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > This is especially true if the script is using something like
> > `cat-file blob HEAD:path/to/file` to look at an optional file's
> > content.
> 
> I am not sure if I agree with this logic.  How is this different
> from discarding stderr to /dev/null?

Also, a redirect of stderr to /dev/null kills other error messages that might be interesting to see on stderr of the caller, like if a packfile isn't readable... while my --quiet patch doesn't.j The --quiet flag only kills errors that occurred because the requested object doesn't exist.

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Shawn.
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