Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From a recent IRC conversation (with permission): > > Dscho thinks that git-cat-file --batch should print an error and exit > if passed an invalid revision (as opposed to the current behavior of > printing "<object> missing" and continuing), since anything else would > be unexpected. [1] He says that an --ignore-missing option should be > introduced instead, and cat-file --batch should exit on non-existent > objects unless the --ignore-missing option is given. [...] > If Dscho (or anybody else) wants to introduce an --ignore-missing > option, feel free to submit it separately, but please don't object to > my patch because of it -- my patch is merely fixing the existing > code. (Note that such an option is unlikely to make it into the code > though, since it would have to change the existing behavior of > cat-file --batch, which other programs rely on.) I think the (usual) solution is to add --ignore-missing and --no-ignore-missing (or --noignore-missing), add configuration option 'catfile.ignoreMissing', make ignore-missing default and deprecate it with some transition time... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
