From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:15:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] sending errors to stdout under $PAGER
Message-ID: <20080217181523.GA4818@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4qv1n78.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:56:27AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Wouldn't it be better/safer to redirect stderr to the pager
> > in the first place?
> >
> > So, instead of the current
> >
> > 	foo | less
> > use
> > 	foo 2>&1 | less
> 
> I like it.  Much nicer.  Thanks.

This will also put the stderr of any sub-programs into the pager, which
is probably worse if you have, e.g., a chatty external diff program. I
don't know if we care enough about that.

-Peff