From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:33:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] diff --quiet
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703141533q4e71e67aqaa83de45fa9e3988@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vodmv7bza.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 3/14/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> The --quiet option is silently turned off (but --exit-code is
> still in effect, so is silent output) if postprocessing filters
> such as pickaxe and diff-filter are used.  For all practical
> purposes I do not think of a reason to want to use these filters
> and not viewing the diff output.

pickaxe filter can be useful in hooks to enforce policy
on use of some constructs. I can well imagine (do not
even have to imagine) a stupid company policy forbidding
commits with "\<printf\>" in them. Have no idea for
diff-filter though.