From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:19:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] git-push: send "To <remoteurl>" messages to the standard output in --porcelain mode
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In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d1002111454w10ad965ej72699d1e185d2a9f@mail.gmail.com>

Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:

> If that's the case, then perhaps the "To: <destination>" lines should
> be sent to both stdout and stderr - stdout, for porcelain scripts as a
> "header", and stderr, to help the user make sense of any errors that
> occur ("oh, these errors were triggered when pushing to so-and-so
> remote").

Under --porcelain, to show or not to show is under control of the calling
script.  Not sending it to standard error stream doesn't cause any harm,
as the calling script can choose to echo it out to its standard error (or
standard output).