From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:14:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] ls-tree.c: support `--oid-only` option for "git-ls-tree"
Message-ID: <211122.8635no1lwp.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20211122074538.87255-1-dyroneteng@gmail.com>


On Mon, Nov 22 2021, Teng Long wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:30:52 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote

>> just cut -f1 instead of awk? Also don't put "git" on the LHS of a pipe,
>> it might hide segfaults. Also applies to the below.
>>
>
> Will apply, and could you please describe the problem with more details?
> (appreciate if there is an executable example)

Run this in a terminal:

    git stawtus | cat; echo $?;

The LHS of the pipe fails, but the exit code of that command is
hidden. So we prefer:

    git stawtus >out && # fails
    [...]