From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:39:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prompt: squelch error output from cat
Message-ID: <20130613143942.GK2091@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <1371131209-32479-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 07:16:49PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> 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