Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> The commands might fail, that's why '2> /dev/null' was used before,
>> and ':' is used right now.
>
> Wait, what?
>
> : is a no-op command. It does not redirect stderr automatically or
> do any other magical thing.
s/no-op/true/ ;-)
> ..., so I suppose consistency is the only reason to
> prefer one over another.
Yes. And the script may probably use [[ very heavily.
Early return after || i.e.
A || return
B
simply looks ugly and misleading, especially when the remainder B is just
a single line. But I stopped caring about the styles in this particular
script long time ago, so...
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