From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:20:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option
Message-ID: <7v8xckpxxs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070422081556.GJ17480@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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,...

I think that quite depends on what your definition of "other"
is; see my other message on this subject.