Re: [PATCH] t1503: test rev-parse --verify --quiet with deleted reflogs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2014, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy4tk7npg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140914185403.GA93515@gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

> Good point. The --quiet spec doesn't say anything about stdout,

Please correct it while at it in the doc ;-)

I think I had to look it up in the documentation and then in code if

    git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$object"

the right way to check if the object is a good name without output when it is, and get diagnosis in an appropriate error message when it isn't.

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