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From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Determining if a file exists in a bare repo
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:57:12 -0500
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:39, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Even if it returned an error status, you are discarding it by placing=
 the
> process on the upstream side of the pipe, so your command line above =
won't
> be able to catch an error anyway.

Sorry I wasn't very clear, first I trying to use git-show if the file
existed and then piping the output to rst2html...

> I would probably do something like this
> if I were you:
>
> =A0 =A0git rev-parse --verify master:INSTALL >/dev/null 2>&1 &&
> =A0 =A0git cat-file blob master:INSTALL | rst2...

Thanks, thats a better approach!

Cheers

Adam