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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] cat-file: teach cat-file a '--literally' option
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:14:36 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On April 16, 2015 7:05:04 PM GMT+05:30, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>I meant just a different message.  The point of -e is to see if the
>>thing exists.  It is good to mention _how_ the result is reported
>>back to the user (i.e. via the exit code, not via an output to the
>>standard output "exists" vs "missing", for example), but that is
>>secondary.  Telling how it reports is meaningless without telling
>>what it reports in the first place.
>
> I see what you mean. But I think it's beyond the scope of this patch series.

It is perfectly fine to leave it as-is; that is why I said "This is a tangent".

Thanks.