Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The -e option to cat-file will emit output, after promising not to. > > We should take either 1/2 or 2/2, but not both. I'm partial to just > documenting the existing behavior and dropping 2/2, it's useful to > know if you passed in something that didn't look like a SHA-1. > > But if others disagree we can drop 1/2 and take 2/2. Up to you. > > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (2): > cat-file doc: document that -e will return some output > cat-file: -e should not emit output on stderr > > Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 7 ++++--- > builtin/cat-file.c | 8 ++++++-- > t/t1006-cat-file.sh | 7 +++++++ > 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) I am kind of confused. When the doc there says "no output", I read it as "no output", and no other restriction (like suppressing an error diagnosis, which is not even sent to the standard output stream).
