From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:36:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] silence git gc --auto --quiet output
Message-ID: <20120924183641.GA15858@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120924024024.GA12700@tin.tmux.org>

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 04:40:24AM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote:

> When --quiet is requested, gc --auto should not display messages unless
> there is an error.
> [...]
> -		if (quiet)
> -			fprintf(stderr, _("Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.\n"));

That makes sense to me. I wonder if we should also be more careful about
propagating quiet flags from the callers of "gc --auto". For example,
"git am -q" will run "git gc --auto" without the quiet flag at the end,
potentially producing unwanted output.

-Peff