Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > This is especially true if the script is using something like > > `cat-file blob HEAD:path/to/file` to look at an optional file's > > content. > > I am not sure if I agree with this logic. How is this different > from discarding stderr to /dev/null? Also, a redirect of stderr to /dev/null kills other error messages that might be interesting to see on stderr of the caller, like if a packfile isn't readable... while my --quiet patch doesn't.j The --quiet flag only kills errors that occurred because the requested object doesn't exist. -- Shawn. - 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