Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach cat-file a --quiet option

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

This is especially true if the script is using something like
`cat-file blob HEAD:path/to/file` to look at an optional file's
content.

I am not sure if I agree with this logic.  How is this different
from discarding stderr to /dev/null?

Also, a redirect of stderr to /dev/null kills other error messages
that might be interesting to see on stderr of the caller, like if
a packfile isn't readable...  while my --quiet patch doesn't.j The
--quiet flag only kills errors that occurred because the requested
object doesn't exist.

-- 
Shawn.