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

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

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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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,...

I think that quite depends on what your definition of "other"
is; see my other message on this subject.