From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:36:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/13] remote-hg: redirect buggy mercurial output Message-ID: <7v8v50brfn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Felipe Contreras writes: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Felipe Contreras writes: >> >>> We can't use stdout for that in remote helpers. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras >>> --- >> >> You may want to clarify "buggy output" a bit. Will mercurial >> forever be broken? Some versions of Hg emit [[[it is unclear for >> Junio to tell what it is to fill this blank]]] to its output that >> we want to ignore? > > The problem is that mercurial's code is kind of hardcoded to run under > mercurial's UI, so it throws messages around willynillingly, like: > > searching for changes > no changes found > > And they can't be turned off. Theoretically we could override > mercurial's UI class, but I think that has the potential to create > more problems, it's not worth at this point in time. Oh, I totally agree with you _after_ reading that explanation. You just shouldn't let me waste your time to explain that to me in this exchange, and you could have done so by writing a clearer log message. That's all. > > Cheers.