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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 22, 2007, 07:56 UTC
Message-ID: <7virboq1tx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070422011447.GC2910@spearce.org>

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

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> Sometimes when you get the content of a file in a script you don't
> want an error message for missing files; instead its OK to treat
> a missing file the same as one whose content was empty.
>
> 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?