Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>> > This is especially true if the script is using something like
>> > `cat-file blob HEAD:path/to/file` to look at an optional file's
>> > content.
>> 
>> I am not sure if I agree with this logic.  How is this different
>> from discarding stderr to /dev/null?
>
> Also, a redirect of stderr to /dev/null kills other error messages
> that might be interesting to see on stderr of the caller,...