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Re: [PATCH] use -q instead of redirect to /dev/null for git update-index

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 21, 2010, 19:50 UTC
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Benjamin Meyer <ben@meyerhome.net> writes:
> For what it is worth I got the task from the Git Janitor wiki page.
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor
>
> Sorry I didn't include that in my changelog.

Thanks for a pointer; I tried fixing the Janitor page. The description did sound as if we invite anybody to send in sed -e 's|>/dev/null|-q|' output as a patch without thinking, which is very wrong.

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  1. use -q instead of redirect to /dev/null for git update-indexRomain Bignon, Mar 21, 2010
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