On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/01, Stefan Beller wrote: >> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > + >> > + if (capture_command(&cp, &out, GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1) || out.len) >> >> eh, I gave too much and self-contradicting feedback here earlier, >> ideally I'd like to review this to be similar as: >> >> if (capture_command(&cp, &out, GIT_MAX_HEXSZ + 1) >> die("cannot capture git-rev-list in submodule '%s', sub->path); > > This wouldn't really work because if you provide a SHA1 to rev-list > which it isn't able to find then it returns a non-zero exit code which > would cause this to die, which isn't the desired behavior. Oh. In that case, why do we even check for its stdout? (from rev-lists man page) --quiet Don’t print anything to standard output. This form is primarily meant to allow the caller to test the exit status to see if a range of objects is fully connected (or not). It is faster than redirecting stdout to /dev/null as the output does not have to be formatted. > > I feel like you're making this a little too complicated, as all I'm > doing is shuffling around already existing logic. I understand the want > to make things more robust but this seems unnecessarily complex. ok. I was just giving my thoughts on how I would approach it. Thanks, Stefan