Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:40:48PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > >> * It would swallow even those errors that we are interested in, >> e.g. (note the missing quotes around $foo): >> [...] >> * I often find myself tracing/debugging the completion script >> through stderr by scattering >> >> echo >&2 "foo: '$foo'" > > One alternative to deal with these would be to add a flag to > conditionally turn off stderr, and then leave it on during normal > operation and disable it (letting everything through, including whatever > random cruft git commands produce) for debugging. > > But... > >> * I have a WIP patch series that deals with errors from git >> commands. > > I'm happy to wait and see what this patch looks like (and generally > happy to defer to you on maintenance issues for completion, as you are > much more likely than me to be the one fixing things later on :) ). > > -Peff Likewise on both counts. -- 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