From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:29:06 GMT
Subject: Re: describe fails on tagless branch
Message-ID: <7vbqk67wz1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <eqch3d$5gc$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Andy Parkins wrote:
>
>>> It might not be a bad idea to give '-q' option to make it silent
>>> when it fails because the commit is indescribable.
>> 
>> I don't think it's worth it.  The "-q" be used only in scripts, and in a 
>> script you would do the whole "2> /dev/null || echo 'No tag found'" thing 
>> anyway.
>
> It would be worth for Perl (for gitweb) to be able to use list form of magic
> open, without spawning shell (and assorted argument quoting troubles), but
> silently. 
>
> I think it would be fairly easy to add -q option to git wrapper: it would
> simply set die, error and warn routines and no-op (no-write) versions.

You completely missed my point.  describe -q would not squelch
*all* errors and die()'s, but only the specific "this cannot be
described".  If you give a non-existent object name on the
command line, it _should_ barf loudly.