Re: git sending messages to stderr on MacOS 10.8

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2014, 09:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BWG7qwKX0v0tOEoEFrGAXb_PJWzvgQsXxXhsvVypudsA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGMHX_2pdQPbHEkpbtSxnFS+GRn1Uiy8CCK6CPWqhidbE4aSmw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I am using git version 1.8.4.2 installed on Mac using MacPorts. When
> e.g. cloning a repository, the cloning message is being sent to
> stderr, but I think it should be sent to stdout:
>
>     In [8]: p = subprocess.Popen('git clone
> git://github.com/embray/astropy'.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>
>     In [9]: p.stdout.read()
>     Out[9]: ''
>
>     In [10]: p.stderr.read()
>     Out[10]: "Cloning into 'astropy'...\n"
>
> Is this expected behavior, or a bug?

It's expected behavior. See 68b939b (clone: send diagnostic messages to stderr - 2013-09-18) for details.

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Duy