git-rebase doesn't forward --quiet to git-checkout

Sam Cates· Apr 27, 2015, 19:05 UTC · lore

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. git checkout master
2. git rebase --quiet master topic

EXPECTED RESULTS: The checkout and rebase occur with no output.

ACTUAL RESULTS: The output from the checkout is not suppressed.

Thanks, Sam

Jeff King· Apr 28, 2015, 05:17 UTC · re: Sam Cates · lore

[PATCH] rebase: silence "git checkout" for noop rebase

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:05:41PM -0700, Sam Cates wrote:

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> STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
> 1. git checkout master
> 2. git rebase --quiet master topic
> 
> EXPECTED RESULTS:
> The checkout and rebase occur with no output.
> 
> ACTUAL RESULTS:
> The output from the checkout is not suppressed.

Can you be more specific about your setup? What is the relationship between "master" and "topic"?

If "topic" is already up to date with master, I get:

  $ git rebase --quiet master topic
  Switched to branch 'topic'

(the --quiet does suppress "Current branch topic is up to date"). The patch below addresses that. But there may be other calls to git-checkout that would need similar treatment (either unconditional "-q" as below, or respecting $GIT_QUIET, depending on the individual case).

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Subject: rebase: silence "git checkout" for noop rebase

When the branch to be rebased is already up to date, we "git checkout" the branch, print an "up to date" message, and end the rebase early. However, our checkout may print "Switched to branch 'foo'" or "Already on 'foo'", even if the user has asked for "--quiet".

We should avoid printing these messages at all, "--quiet" or no. Since the rebase is a noop, this checkout can be seen as optimizing out these other two checkout operations (that happen in a real rebase):

  1. Moving to the detached HEAD to start the rebase; we
     always feed "-q" to checkout there, and instead rely on
     our own custom message (which respects --quiet).

  2. Finishing a rebase, where we move to the final branch.
     Here we actually use update-ref rather than
     git-checkout, and produce no messages.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 git-rebase.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 55da9db..90854e3 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ then
 		# Lazily switch to the target branch if needed...
 		test -z "$switch_to" ||
 		GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $switch_to" \
-			git checkout "$switch_to" --
+			git checkout -q "$switch_to" --
 		say "$(eval_gettext "Current branch \$branch_name is up to date.")"
 		finish_rebase
 		exit 0

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