From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rev-list: Introduce --no-output to avoid /dev/null redirects
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:44:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071108234418.GE4899@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071108080052.GB16690@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce, Thu, Nov 08, 2007 09:00:52 +0100:
> Some uses of git-rev-list are to run it with --objects to see if
> a range of objects between two or more commits is fully connected
> or not. In such a case the caller doesn't care about the actual
> object names or hash hints so formatting this data only for it to
> be dumped to /dev/null by a redirect is a waste of CPU time. If
> all the caller needs is the exit status then --no-output can be
> used to bypass the commit and object formatting.
We already have --quiet and even --exit-code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 8:00 [PATCH 2/3] rev-list: Introduce --no-output to avoid /dev/null redirects Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-08 23:44 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-11-09 7:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 8:12 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-09 8:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 9:12 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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