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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rev-list: Introduce --no-output to avoid /dev/null
	redirects
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:44:18 +0100
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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.