Andy Parkins wrote: >> It might not be a bad idea to give '-q' option to make it silent >> when it fails because the commit is indescribable. > > I don't think it's worth it. The "-q" be used only in scripts, and in a > script you would do the whole "2> /dev/null || echo 'No tag found'" thing > anyway. It would be worth for Perl (for gitweb) to be able to use list form of magic open, without spawning shell (and assorted argument quoting troubles), but silently. I think it would be fairly easy to add -q option to git wrapper: it would simply set die, error and warn routines and no-op (no-write) versions. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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