From: Brandon Williams Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 02:12:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] usage.c: drop set_error_handle() Message-ID: <20170514021215.GA82343@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20170513034818.h3aaihqmf4q43vef@sigill.intra.peff.net> On 05/12, Jeff King wrote: > The set_error_handle() function was introduced by 3b331e926 > (vreportf: report to arbitrary filehandles, 2015-08-11) so > that run-command could send post-fork, pre-exec errors to > the parent's original stderr. > > That use went away in 79319b194 (run-command: eliminate > calls to error handling functions in child, 2017-04-19), > which pushes all of the error reporting to the parent. > This leaves no callers of set_error_handle(). As we're not > likely to add any new ones, let's drop it. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King Looks good to me! Thanks -- Brandon Williams