On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:41:44PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 21:05, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > >> are there some flags to make the maintenance commands like > >> git-repack and git-gc silent, so they only output errors ? > > > > Does --quiet work? If not, patches would be welcome. > > I intentionally neglected to mention that. That inevitably leads to > cases where something fails, but you didn't record the output. I'm confused. Isn't the point of quiet to silence all of the cruft, and leave only actual errors? $ git gc Counting objects: 128, done. Compressing objects: 100% (49/49), done. Writing objects: 100% (128/128), done. Total 128 (delta 71), reused 121 (delta 68) $ git gc --quiet $ chmod -w .git/objects/pack $ git gc --quiet fatal: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied error: failed to run repack Isn't that what the OP wanted? > cronjob(1) will consume all the output, and either print it all or > nothing, depending on the exit code of the program it's running. That is a good solution for broken programs that have no "print only errors" mode, but I don't think git is one of those (and if it is, we should fix it). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html