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"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?