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Re: [PATCH] Print progress message to stderr, not stdout

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2006, 15:37 UTC
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<20061204153705.GA8644@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
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On 2006-12-04 09:17:16 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
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> On 02/12/06, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Printing progress messages to stdout causes them to get mixed up
> > > with the actual output of the program. Using stderr is much
> > > better, since the user can then redirect the two components
> > > separately.
> >
> > This patch breaks qgit.
>
> Since there are other tools relying on a clean stderr, I think I
> would revert it and add a verbose flag and/or config option. Karl,
> any thoughts on this (since you sent the patch)?

I introduced this since I wanted to divert the output to a file, and the progress message had no business being written to that file. But a command line option to suppress progress messages would work just as well if that's what git does.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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  1. Print progress message to stderr, not stdoutKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  2. Marco CostalbaDec 2, 2006
  3. Catalin MarinasDec 4, 2006
  4. Karl HasselströmDec 4, 2006
  5. Marco CostalbaDec 4, 2006
  6. Catalin MarinasDec 4, 2006
  7. Marco CostalbaDec 5, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinDec 5, 2006
  9. Karl HasselströmDec 5, 2006
  10. Catalin MarinasDec 5, 2006

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