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From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: git gc logs to standard error
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:55:01 +0100
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On Monday 14 December 2009, Richard Rossel wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a question related to the output of git gc logs. Let me
> explain,
>
> [...]
>
> I realized that the message are sent to standard error,
> so the question is why is the reason to do that?
>
> The quick solution to my problem of annoying mails is send the output
> error to /dev/null
> but what happens when an error really occur, there will be no message
> to alert me.

Try the --quiet parameter to "git gc" (and other git commands).


...Johan

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