Shawn O. Pearce, Thu, Nov 08, 2007 09:00:52 +0100: > Some uses of git-rev-list are to run it with --objects to see if > a range of objects between two or more commits is fully connected > or not. In such a case the caller doesn't care about the actual > object names or hash hints so formatting this data only for it to > be dumped to /dev/null by a redirect is a waste of CPU time. If > all the caller needs is the exit status then --no-output can be > used to bypass the commit and object formatting. We already have --quiet and even --exit-code. - 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
