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Re: [PATCH] [kernel] completion: silence "fatal: Not a git repository" error

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John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
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Oct 14, 2014, 13:58 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:49 AM, John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote:
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> It is possible that a user is trying to run a git command and fail to realize
> that they are not in a git repository or working tree.  When trying to complete
> an operation, __git_refs would fall to a degenerate case and attempt to use
> "git for-each-ref", which would emit the error.
>
> Let's fix this by shunting the error message coming from "git for-each-ref".
>
> Signed-off-by: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
> ---

Sorry for the "[kernel]" in the subject. I must have forgotten to remove that off of my format-patch invocation. If you need me to resubmit without it, I can do that.

Thanks!
-John
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