From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 21:34:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] rebase, sequencer: remove the broken GIT_QUIET handling
Message-ID: <xmqqeewy8yv4.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <b99feebae111814be75dd99b5547539f8a764339.1576861788.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>
> The GIT_QUIET environment variable was used to signal the non-am
> backends that the rebase should perform quietly.  The preserve-merges
> backend does not make use of the quiet flag anywhere (other than to
> write out its state whenever it writes state), and this mechanism was
> broken in the conversion from shell to C.  Since this environment
> variable was specifically designed for scripts and the only backend that
> would still use it is no longer a script, just gut this code.

Nice to see a useless code go ;-)