From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, tr@thomasrast.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-completion.bash: always swallow error output of for-each-ref
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:16:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160212221639.GA27974@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160212224048.Horde.IpOeDKLAMM4a11F2xyIeY4M@webmail.informatik.kit.edu>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:40:48PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> * It would swallow even those errors that we are interested in,
> e.g. (note the missing quotes around $foo):
> [...]
> * I often find myself tracing/debugging the completion script
> through stderr by scattering
>
> echo >&2 "foo: '$foo'"
One alternative to deal with these would be to add a flag to
conditionally turn off stderr, and then leave it on during normal
operation and disable it (letting everything through, including whatever
random cruft git commands produce) for debugging.
But...
> * I have a WIP patch series that deals with errors from git
> commands.
I'm happy to wait and see what this patch looks like (and generally
happy to defer to you on maintenance issues for completion, as you are
much more likely than me to be the one fixing things later on :) ).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-12 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-04 10:34 [PATCH] git-completion.bash: always swallow error output of for-each-ref Sebastian Schuberth
2016-02-04 11:13 ` Jeff King
2016-02-04 11:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-04 11:45 ` Jeff King
2016-02-04 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-12 23:21 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-12 23:40 ` Jeff King
2016-02-13 1:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-13 9:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-13 13:53 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-13 17:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-13 16:57 ` Jeff King
2016-02-12 23:43 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-12 23:46 ` Jeff King
2016-02-13 0:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-12 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-12 20:10 ` Jeff King
2016-02-12 20:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-12 21:40 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-12 22:16 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-02-12 23:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23 23:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-24 7:48 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-02-12 9:23 ` Sebastian Schuberth
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