From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:37:32 GMT
Subject: Re: describe fails on tagless branch
Message-ID: <eqch3d$5gc$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702071201.16931.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins wrote:

>> 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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git