Question:
Is it possible to execute any git command in “silent” mode? For instance, can i say “git push origin” and see nothing displayed on the screen?
I suppose i can redirect IO to /dev/null (works fine), but .. does git allow something like this naturally?
Below is a quick script that does automatic EOD commit, used when i need to catch the train and don’t want to leave code on my local computer
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1 clear 2 3 cd 4 cd repo/active 5 6 for i in * 7 do 8 cd $i 9 echo "Pushing " $i 10 git add . -A >> /dev/null 11 git commit -a -m "EOD automatic commit" >> /dev/null 12 git push origin >> /dev/null 13 echo 14 cd .. 15 done |
Please let me know.
Answer:
Redirecting output to /dev/null seems like a natural way of doing it to me. Although I have in the past defined a quiet_git shell function like this for use in cron jobs:
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quiet_git() { stdout=$(tempfile) stderr=$(tempfile) if ! git "$@" $stdout 2>$stderr; then cat $stderr >&2 rm -f $stdout $stderr exit 1 fi rm -f $stdout $stderr } |
This will suppress stdout and stderr, unless the git command fails. It’s not pretty; in fact the stdout file is ignored and it should just redirect that to /dev/null. Works, though. And then you can just do “quiet_git push” etc. later on in the script.