From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:14:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update hook: redirect _both_ diagnostic lines to stderr upon tag failure
Message-ID: <7v8xgrvfac.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87tzzg6oyp.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

> Otherwise, sending the diagnostic to stdout would provoke a protocol failure.

Very true; thanks for the patch.

However, I suspect that we'd want to prevent this by redirecting
on the caller side, so that the hook writers do not have to
worry about the issue.  I haven't looked at the code that runs
the hook for some time but we should be able to do that...