From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Engr Md Ferdous Alam <mdferdousalam1989@yahoo.com>
Cc: Md Ferdous Alam via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cat-file: fix error and warning message formatting
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:59:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqms0zmdt3.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410509689.1055311.1771872851838@mail.yahoo.com> (Engr Md Ferdous Alam's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:54:11 +0000 (UTC)")
Engr Md Ferdous Alam <mdferdousalam1989@yahoo.com> writes:
> Given the risk of silently breaking error detection in projects like
> Gitea, Gogs, Gitaly, and IntelliJ, I am not sure whether it is
> worth proceeding with patch [1/2].
> ...
> How would you like to proceed?
It is prudent to treat any and all messages from plumbing commands
like cat-file as sleeping dogs and keep them undisturbed. Even for
human end-user facing messages from Porcelain commands, we may want
to be careful, but if I recall correctly, the commands your recent
set of patches covered were all plumbing?
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-23 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-23 8:45 [PATCH] cat-file: fix error and warning message formatting Md Ferdous Alam via GitGitGadget
2026-02-23 15:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-23 18:54 ` Engr Md Ferdous Alam
2026-02-23 19:59 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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