git-repack: avoid redirecting stderr into git-pack-objects

We are trying to catch error condition of git-rev-list and cause
the downstream pack-objects to barf, but if you run rev-list
with anything that mucks with its stderr (such as GIT_TRACE),
any stderr output would cause the pipeline to fail.

[jc: originally from Matthias Lederhofer, with a reworded error message.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-repack.sh b/git-repack.sh
index 640ad8d90b..9da92fb061 100755
--- a/git-repack.sh
+++ b/git-repack.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ case ",$all_into_one," in
 	;;
 esac
 pack_objects="$pack_objects $local $quiet $no_reuse_delta$extra"
-name=$(git-rev-list --objects --all $rev_list 2>&1 |
+name=$( { git-rev-list --objects --all $rev_list ||
+	  echo "git-rev-list died with exit code $?"
+	} |
 	git-pack-objects --non-empty $pack_objects .tmp-pack) ||
 	exit 1
 if [ -z "$name" ]; then