Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: don't throw away stderr when checking out git submodules

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 02:13:58PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 October 2017 at 14:07, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The stderr from git is important if git fails to checkout modules
> > due to network problems, or other unexpected errors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  scripts/git-submodule.sh | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/git-submodule.sh b/scripts/git-submodule.sh
> > index d8fbc7e47e..08932a35f0 100755
> > --- a/scripts/git-submodule.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/git-submodule.sh
> > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ status)
> >      exit $?
> >      ;;
> >  update)
> > -    git submodule update --init $modules 1>/dev/null 2>&1
> > +    git submodule update --init $modules 1>/dev/null
> >      git submodule status $modules > "${substat}"
> >      ;;
> 
> Is there a reason why we say "1>/dev/null" rather than just ">/dev/null" ?

No special reason other than that was clearer when we had both 1> and 2>
at the same time. I can change it if you prefer ?

Regards,
Daniel
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