"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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,... I think that quite depends on what your definition of "other" is; see my other message on this subject. - 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