From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:57:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Determining if a file exists in a bare repo
Message-ID: <z2p799406d61005040957j93f8f4a3zfb8a9f38dbe7c72c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7hnjoc3i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:39, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Even if it returned an error status, you are discarding it by placing the
> process on the upstream side of the pipe, so your command line above won't
> be able to catch an error anyway.

Sorry I wasn't very clear, first I trying to use git-show if the file
existed and then piping the output to rst2html...

> I would probably do something like this
> if I were you:
>
>    git rev-parse --verify master:INSTALL >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
>    git cat-file blob master:INSTALL | rst2...

Thanks, thats a better approach!

Cheers

Adam