From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:21:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-remote: better handling of multiple remote HEADs
Message-ID: <7v7i3rglza.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718490902150613i79517e6dwcec8e1e40c56bcc8@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

>        Bash allows both the standard output (file descriptor 1) and
>        the standard  error
>        output  (file  descriptor 2) to be redirected to the file whose
>        name is the expansion of word with this construct.
>
>        There are two formats for redirecting standard output and
>        standard error:
>
>               &>word
>        and
>               >&word
>
>        Of the two forms, the first is preferred.  This is semantically
>        equivalent to
>
>               >word 2>&1

Just to clarify, the above is not a recommendation for shell scripts in
git project.  The last one is the only one we recommend in our scripts.

By the say, does anybody know why bash people recommend &>word form?

Neither &>word nor >&word to send both stderr and stdout to the file is
from true Bourne, but at least the use of >&word form for this purpose is
more familiar to people who are used to Csh.