Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > This is especially true if the script is using something like
> > `cat-file blob HEAD:path/to/file` to look at an optional file's
> > content.
> 
> I am not sure if I agree with this logic.  How is this different
> from discarding stderr to /dev/null?

Also, a redirect of stderr to /dev/null kills other error messages
that might be interesting to see on stderr of the caller, like if
a packfile isn't readable...  while my --quiet patch doesn't.j The
--quiet flag only kills errors that occurred because the requested
object doesn't exist.

-- 
Shawn.