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Re: fatal output from git-show really wants a terminal

From
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net>
Date
Dec 10, 2008, 16:10 UTC
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<200812101010.14868.bss03@volumehost.net>
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<ghop5d$qud$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 10:01:49 you wrote:
>It appears that when outputting a fatal error, git-show will choose
>stdout over stderr if stdout is a terminal and stderr is not.  How do I
>redirect the error but still allow stdout to be displayed?

Gah, I think that's really bad behavior. Anyway, something like: git show 12345 2>/dev/null | cat should work. Neither stdout nor stderr will be a terminal, but stdout will be displayed to your terminal.

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