Re: [PATCH] git-completion.bash: always swallow error output of for-each-ref

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:40:48PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>
>>  * It would swallow even those errors that we are interested in,
>>    e.g. (note the missing quotes around $foo):
>> [...]
>>  * I often find myself tracing/debugging the completion script
>>    through stderr by scattering
>> 
>>       echo >&2 "foo: '$foo'"
>
> One alternative to deal with these would be to add a flag to
> conditionally turn off stderr, and then leave it on during normal
> operation and disable it (letting everything through, including whatever
> random cruft git commands produce) for debugging.
>
> But...
>
>>  * I have a WIP patch series that deals with errors from git
>>    commands.
>
> I'm happy to wait and see what this patch looks like (and generally
> happy to defer to you on maintenance issues for completion, as you are
> much more likely than me to be the one fixing things later on :) ).
>
> -Peff