From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:56:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7virboq1tx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070422011447.GC2910@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:14:47 -0400")
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> Sometimes when you get the content of a file in a script you don't
> want an error message for missing files; instead its OK to treat
> a missing file the same as one whose content was empty.
>
> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-22 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 1:14 [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-22 7:56 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-04-22 8:11 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-22 9:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-22 8:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-22 9:20 ` Junio C Hamano
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