Re: can't redirect git's progress output (stderr)

> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a URI handler for git that uses bash/zenity to allow the
> user to clone a git repository when a git:// link is clicked in a browser.
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble getting git's output into zenity, however.
> git outputs its progress messages (everything except the "Initializing"
> message) on stderr, which shouldn't be a problem. Something weird has
> happened though; the moment I try to pipe git's stderr to stdout or a
> file, it disappears.
>
> A simple way to test this:
>
> git clone git://your.favourite/git/repo 2>  file1
> git clone git://your.favourite/git/repo 2>&1>  file2
>
> file1 will be empty (why?) and file2 will contain only the
> "Initializing" message, which came from stdout.
>
> TL;DR why can't I pipe git's stderr output?
>
> Help would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance.
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