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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, szeder@ira•uka.de, tr@thomasrast•ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-completion.bash: always swallow error output of for-each-ref
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:26:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqoablu13j.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160212201002.GA21598@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:10:02 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> I agree it's a lot more pleasant, assuming there are no cases where we
> would want to pass through an error. But I really cannot think of one.
> Even explosive "woah, your git repo is totally corrupted" messages
> probably should be suppressed in the prompt.
>
>> @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ __git_heads ()
>>  			refs/heads
>>  		return
>>  	fi
>> -}
>> +} 2>/dev/null
>
> Today I learned about yet another fun corner of POSIX shell.

I may have learned about this soon after I started learning bash,
but I admit that this was the first time I found a practical use
case for it ;-).

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-12 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-04 10:34 [PATCH] git-completion.bash: always swallow error output of for-each-ref Sebastian Schuberth
2016-02-04 11:13 ` Jeff King
2016-02-04 11:26   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-04 11:45     ` Jeff King
2016-02-04 19:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-12 23:21     ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-12 23:40       ` Jeff King
2016-02-13  1:07         ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-13  9:21           ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-13 13:53             ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-13 17:14               ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-13 16:57           ` Jeff King
2016-02-12 23:43       ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-12 23:46         ` Jeff King
2016-02-13  0:53           ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-12 20:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-12 20:10     ` Jeff King
2016-02-12 20:26       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-02-12 21:40     ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-02-12 22:16       ` Jeff King
2016-02-12 23:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23 23:30           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-24  7:48             ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-02-12  9:23 ` Sebastian Schuberth

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