From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: describe fails on tagless branch
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:37:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eqch3d$5gc$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200702071201.16931.andyparkins@gmail.com
Andy Parkins wrote:
>> It might not be a bad idea to give '-q' option to make it silent
>> when it fails because the commit is indescribable.
>
> I don't think it's worth it. The "-q" be used only in scripts, and in a
> script you would do the whole "2> /dev/null || echo 'No tag found'" thing
> anyway.
It would be worth for Perl (for gitweb) to be able to use list form of magic
open, without spawning shell (and assorted argument quoting troubles), but
silently.
I think it would be fairly easy to add -q option to git wrapper: it would
simply set die, error and warn routines and no-op (no-write) versions.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-07 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-07 0:23 describe fails on tagless branch Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-02-07 0:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-07 1:19 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-02-07 2:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-07 9:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-07 9:22 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-07 9:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-07 12:01 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-07 12:37 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-02-07 16:29 ` Junio C Hamano
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