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[34.125.33.60]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-826dd8baa34sm9299863b3a.51.2026.02.23.11.59.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:59:21 -0800 (PST) Sender: Junio C Hamano From: Junio C Hamano To: Engr Md Ferdous Alam Cc: Md Ferdous Alam via GitGitGadget , "git@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] cat-file: fix error and warning message formatting 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)") References: <410509689.1055311.1771872851838@mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:59:20 -0800 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Engr Md Ferdous Alam 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.