[wishlist] disable boring messages

Alexander Inyukhin· Sep 16, 2016, 22:17 UTC · lore

Hi,

is it possible to make git silent, when nothing interesting is happening?

I have a lot of repos and a batch script to update them all, and I want to get rid of 'Fetching origin' and 'Already up-to-date.' messages leaving only new refs and tags.

Anatoly Borodin· Sep 17, 2016, 16:03 UTC · re: Alexander Inyukhin · lore

Re: [wishlist] disable boring messages

Hi!

Alexander Inyukhin <shurick@sectorb.msk.ru> wrote:

> I have a lot of repos and a batch script to update them all,
> and I want to get rid of 'Fetching origin' and 'Already up-to-date.'
> messages leaving only new refs and tags.

There is an option `-q`, but it's too silent :)

As far as I can see, `git fetch` prints 'Fetching origin' etc to stdout, and new refs/tags to stderr (don't ask me why). So

	git fetch blabla > /dev/null
	
should probably do the job.

Now, if you collect and save those logs, you may need some shell-fu to redirect that stderr to stdout, but not to /dev/null. Something like

	(git fetch blabla > /dev/null) 2>&1

(run `git fetch` in a subshell)...

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Anatoly Borodin