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

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Jun 14, 2013, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20130614135816.GL2091@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kwVahUF_kwk4jRr7Qr5_H-FY_aXWLkQcaZV-YrV_mgjw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 08:15:59PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> > 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?
> 
>   # On terminal one
>   $ git rebase --interactive master
>   # Ignore editor, and open terminal two
>   cat: .git/rebase-merge/msgnum: No such file or directory
>   cat: .git/rebase-merge/end: No such file or directory
>   $

Interesting, I wouldn't have thought of that.

I was wondering whether there are cases and code paths in git rebase, where it knows what to write into those files but it does not write them, which might be worth fixing additionally. In case of this halfway-started rebase I don't see any point in displaying 0/42, so I don't think any additional fix would be necessary.

Thanks, Gábor