From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:56:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: consistent error messages for staged and unstaged changes.
Message-ID: <vpqljlx465w.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vws5i9nsy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
>
>> Previous version expose the output of the plumbing update-index to the
>> user, which novice users have difficulty to understand.
>
> Can't -q(uiet) option of update-index be used for this?

No, since update-index -q doesn't set the exit status properly:

$ git update-index --ignore-submodules    --refresh  > /dev/null; echo $? 
1
$ git update-index --ignore-submodules -q --refresh             ; echo $?  
0

-- 
Matthieu