Hi Dne 29.2.2016 v 12:44 Jeff King napsal(a): > It looks like it has been this way forever. The first thing we do with > the object is resolve its name to a sha1, and that's where the error you > see comes from. And then we actually check whether we have the object. > > I think the intended use was to feed it a sha1 to see if it exists. Then > the name-resolution step is a noop.
I found this as best way to check whether file exists in branch.
Checking git ls-tree output seems less error prone than checking return
value of git cat-file -e...
> I'm not sure if the behavior you are seeing is all that bad (the
> documentation could be read as suppressing the normal stdout output, but
> error messages remain),
I understand this, that's why I'm asking whether it's expected output or
not :-).
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