From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:59:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] recv_sideband: Band #2 always goes to stderr
Message-ID: <7viqmh7wvg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <49B64ADC.2090406@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> All data producers and data consumers *in git* use band #2 to transport
> error messages and progress report.

Correct; I wrote that in the big comment at the beginning of sideband.c.

Of course we could enhance the protocol to use more bands as needed.  #2
and #3 have their own meanings and they both map well to "send to stderr".