Re: [PATCH] use -q instead of redirect to /dev/null for git update-index

> The above can be said to other "/dev/null to -q" patches we saw on the
> list recently.  The saddest part of the story is that, the review cost
> (not necessarily spent by me, but time spent by other people reviewing
> patches is precious) is paid only to prevent a breakage like this patch
> tries to introduce from getting accepted, without much potential reward.
> Even if some of those patches turn out to be harmless, the only thing we
> would have bought with the cost of reviewing is that we made sure that the
> system would continue to work as before, but that is what we could have
> easily done by not even looking at the patches at all.