From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:15:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20070422081556.GJ17480@spearce.org> References: <20070422011447.GC2910@spearce.org> <7virboq1tx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 22 10:16:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HfXEv-0001sb-Fc for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:16:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965552AbXDVIQE (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:16:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965554AbXDVIQE (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:16:04 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:43156 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965552AbXDVIQB (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:16:01 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HfXEi-00040U-M8; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:15:56 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD71A20FBAE; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:15:56 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7virboq1tx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" 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.