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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 16:33, Valeo de Vries <valeo@valeo.co.cc> wrote=
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> On 14 August 2010 14:11, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> are there some flags to make the maintenance commands like
>> git-repack and git-gc silent, so they only output errors ?
>
> Just redirect stdout to /dev/null and check git's return status, as =C4=
=98var said.

It's better to not redirect anything, set a trap that checks if
anything exited with non-zero, and then look at all the output if
anything fails.