Re: Bugreport: Git responds with stderr instead of stdout

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 25, 2010, 19:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20100425193258.GA16171@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <m2h51dd1af81004251232ue621ca42r7168429f45d20461@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:32:00PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> >> I've had some issues scripting `git fetch` because on error it'll
> >> print to stdout and not stderr.
> >
> > Errors should go to stderr, so I imagine patches would be welcome. Which
> > messages went to stdout?
> 
> I can't recall exactly now. Looking at fetch.c I can't see anything
> obvious, I'll report anything if I spot it in the future.

Thanks. As I mentioned, we've been fixing little things like this as time goes on, so it may well have been fixed already.

-Peff