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authorLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>2018-01-10 12:55:53 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-01-10 15:08:14 -0800
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cat-file doc: document that -e will return some output
The -e option added in 7950571ad7 ("A few more options for git-cat-file", 2005-12-03) has always errored out with message on stderr saying that the provided object is malformed, like this: $ git cat-file -e malformed; echo $? fatal: Not a valid object name malformed 128 A reader of this documentation may be misled into thinking that if ! git cat-file -e "$object" [...] as opposed to: if ! git cat-file -e "$object" 2>/dev/null [...] is sufficient to implement a truly silent test that checks whether some arbitrary $object string was both valid, and pointed to an object that exists. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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