Re: [PATCH] Add -q option to "git rm" to suppress output when there aren't errors.

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Apr 16, 2007, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <4622C0AC.8090904@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pnh18hr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Suppressing output is understandable and probably is a useful
> thing to do, but I do not see a justification to tie that
> quietness to making the status unuable...
>

The status is unusable as is, actually, for the particular use case of cg-admin-rewritehist. If you try to use git-rm as an index filter, cg-admin-rewritehist will stop running as soon as you hit a revision that doesn't contain the file you're looking to filter out. (If the file doesn't exist in the first revision in your repo, that means it will do no work at all.)

My justification was that the "-f" option to the normal UNIX "rm" command does the same thing: it suppresses output and causes the command to exit with a zero status code even if no files match. But "git rm -f" was already taken.

If you like I'll be happy to split it into two separate options.

-Steve