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Re: [PATCH] prompt: squelch error output from cat

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SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date
Jun 13, 2013, 14:39 UTC
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<20130613143942.GK2091@goldbirke>
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<1371131209-32479-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 07:16:49PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
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> The files $g/rebase-{merge,apply}/{head-name,msgnum,end} are not
> guaranteed to exist.  When attempting to cat them, squelch the error
> output to get rid of messages like these:
> 
>   cat: .git/rebase-merge/msgnum: No such file or directory
>   cat: .git/rebase-merge/end: No such file or directory
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Makes sense.

Just curious: when do those files don't exist? When using an older version of git with a newer prompt, obviously, but are there other cases?

Thanks, Gábor

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