Re: git gc logs to standard error

From: Richard Rossel <rrossel@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Dec 14, 2009, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID: <4B266371.9040106@inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <200912141655.01268.johan@herland.net>

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> On Monday 14 December 2009, Richard Rossel wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I have a question related to the output of git gc logs. Let me
>> explain,
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I realized that the message are sent to standard error,
>> so the question is why is the reason to do that?
>>
>> The quick solution to my problem of annoying mails is send the output
>> error to /dev/null
>> but what happens when an error really occur, there will be no message
>> to alert me.
>>      
> Try the --quiet parameter to "git gc" (and other git commands).
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> ...Johan
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Yes, the quiet option works when I do 'git gc', but in the cron file there is no git-gc command, only fetch and reset. I suppose that those commands calls (internally) to git-gc. Also I try with -q option in fetch and reset but without results, the only thing that works was with 2>/dev/null, but as I mention before, is not a good idea because I will miss the real errors messages.

The real question here is why git-gc send those logs to the standard error instead of standard output?

-- Richard Rossel Airsage Inc. Valparaiso - Chile