Re: [wishlist] disable boring messages

From: Anatoly Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2016, 16:03 UTC
Message-ID: <nrjpfr$565$1@blaine.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160916221753.pvqdwb7vspkosyxu@shurick.grid.su>

Hi!

Alexander Inyukhin <shurick@sectorb.msk.ru> wrote:

> I have a lot of repos and a batch script to update them all,
> and I want to get rid of 'Fetching origin' and 'Already up-to-date.'
> messages leaving only new refs and tags.

There is an option `-q`, but it's too silent :)

As far as I can see, `git fetch` prints 'Fetching origin' etc to stdout, and new refs/tags to stderr (don't ask me why). So

	git fetch blabla > /dev/null
	
should probably do the job.

Now, if you collect and save those logs, you may need some shell-fu to redirect that stderr to stdout, but not to /dev/null. Something like

	(git fetch blabla > /dev/null) 2>&1

(run `git fetch` in a subshell)...

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Anatoly Borodin