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[PATCH 5/5] mv: be quiet about overwriting

From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:37
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

When a user asks us to force a mv and overwrite the
destination, we print a warning. However, since a typical
use would be:

  $ git mv one two
  fatal: destination exists, source=one, destination=two
  $ git mv -f one two
  warning: destination exists (will overwrite), source=one, destination=two

this warning is just noise. We already know we're
overwriting; that's why we gave -f!

This patch silences the warning unless "--verbose" is given.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
---
You could perhaps argue that it is useful in the case of moving multiple
files into a directory (since it tells you _which_ files were
overwritten). We could turn the warning on in that case, but I'm
inclined to leave it. If the user cares about this information, they can
use "-v" along with "-f".

 builtin/mv.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/mv.c b/builtin/mv.c
index c9ecb03..b6e7e4f 100644
--- a/builtin/mv.c
+++ b/builtin/mv.c
@@ -177,8 +177,9 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 				 * check both source and destination
 				 */
 				if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode) || S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
-					warning(_("%s (will overwrite), source=%s, destination=%s"),
-						bad, src, dst);
+					if (verbose)
+						warning(_("%s (will overwrite), source=%s, destination=%s"),
+							bad, src, dst);
 					bad = NULL;
 				} else
 					bad = _("Cannot overwrite");
-- 
1.7.8.13.g74677
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