Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > In preparation for a later patch that creates $dotest/autostash in > git-rebase.sh before anything else happens, don't assume that the > presence of a $dotest directory implies the existence of the $next and > $last files. The check for the files is in a conditional anyway, but > `cat` is executed on potentially non-existent files. Suppress this > error output. > > Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > git-am.sh | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh > index c092855..88aa438 100755 > --- a/git-am.sh > +++ b/git-am.sh > @@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ done > # If the dotest directory exists, but we have finished applying all the > # patches in them, clear it out. > if test -d "$dotest" && > - last=$(cat "$dotest/last") && > - next=$(cat "$dotest/next") && > + last=$(cat "$dotest/last" 2>/dev/null) && > + next=$(cat "$dotest/next" 2>/dev/null) && > test $# != 0 && > test "$next" -gt "$last" > then If you are introducing "dotest exists but next/last may not be present" as a valid new state, it probably should check the presence and/or absence of them explicitly, but more importantly, it is a good idea to move "test $# != 0" higher. Earlier it did not matter because when $dotest existed, next/last were supposed to be there and absence of them was an error codepath. Now, missing these files is not an error but is a perfectly normal state, so checking what can be checked more cheaply makes sense as a general code hygiene. As you may already know, I am not taking a patch that is not meant for 'master' to fix regressions in 1.8.3 at this point in the cycle after -rc2; please hold onto this and other patches as they won't stay in my mailbox. -- 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