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Re: describe fails on tagless branch

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2007, 12:37 UTC
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Andy Parkins wrote:
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>> It might not be a bad idea to give '-q' option to make it silent
>> when it fails because the commit is indescribable.
> 
> I don't think it's worth it.  The "-q" be used only in scripts, and in a 
> script you would do the whole "2> /dev/null || echo 'No tag found'" thing 
> anyway.

It would be worth for Perl (for gitweb) to be able to use list form of magic open, without spawning shell (and assorted argument quoting troubles), but silently.

I think it would be fairly easy to add -q option to git wrapper: it would simply set die, error and warn routines and no-op (no-write) versions.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  3. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2007
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 7, 2007
  6. Andy ParkinsFeb 7, 2007
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