From: Benjamin Meyer <ben@meyerhome.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:02:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use -q instead of redirect to /dev/null for git update-index
Message-ID: <70E4FE83-0DC9-4AF1-BA20-BE6467FC8D07@meyerhome.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6hlvmoy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

> 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.

For what it is worth I got the task from the Git Janitor wiki page.  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor

Sorry I didn't include that in my changelog.

-Benjamin Meyer