Karl Chen <quarl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The git-update-index man page entry for -q says: > > -q > Quiet. If --refresh finds that the index needs an > update, the default behavior is to error out. This > option makes git-update-index continue anyway. > > Can someone explain this to me? As far as I can tell, > git-update-index without -q does not error out after the first > update. : gitster j; git init Initialized empty Git repository in /var/tmp/j/.git/ : gitster j/master; >afile; git update-index --add afile : gitster j/master; echo a >afile : gitster j/master; git update-index --refresh; echo $? afile: needs update 1 : gitster j/master; git update-index -q --refresh; echo $? 0 : gitster j/master; exit -- 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
