Trying to redirect 'git gc' output

Question

I have a @daily job in the crontab that runs git gc on all the repos. I\'m trying to set up a log file for the job but I/O redirection does not pro

Answer 1

You can try this:

script -q -c 'git gc' > log

Or this (with more readable output):

script -q -c 'git gc' | sed 's/\r.*//g' > log