From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:41:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Silent maintenance
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=+veDhBEt-tK_qaXhvMVmRCZtW7+O6ig3ujASz@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimZ4df7wVXSGdNm+vWgAuPVDcUupxEvn9FByx=P@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 16:33, Valeo de Vries <valeo@valeo.co.cc> wrote:
> On 14 August 2010 14:11, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> are there some flags to make the maintenance commands like
>> git-repack and git-gc silent, so they only output errors ?
>
> Just redirect stdout to /dev/null and check git's return status, as Ęvar said.

It's better to not redirect anything, set a trap that checks if
anything exited with non-zero, and then look at all the output if
anything fails.