From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:57:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rebase -i: several cleanups
Message-ID: <7vodj2tazk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706270216070.4438@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > +die_abort () {
>> > +	rm -rf "$DOTEST" 2> /dev/null
>> > +	die "$1"
>> > +}
>> 
>> Why "2>/dev/null" here?
>
> Just to be sure. If it does not exist, it's no error. No sense alarming 
> the user.

Yeah, but isn't that exactly why you have "-f" there?  On the
other hand, if $DOTEST exists but for some reason couldn't be
removed, we probably would want to know about it.

    $ rm -fr no-such
    $ mkdir no-such
    $ echo >no-such/file
    $ rm -fr no-such
    $ mkdir no-such
    $ echo >no-such/file
    $ chmod a-w no-such
    $ rm -fr no-such
    rm: cannot remove `no-such/file': Permission denied