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Re: [RFC_PATCHv4 4/7] submodule init: redirect stdout to stderr

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2016, 07:46 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> Reroute the output of stdout to stderr as it is just informative
> messages, not to be consumed by machines.

Just wondering, what's Git's policy on this? This message is neither an error nor a warning, but just purely informational. As such it semantically does not belong to stderr, or? On the other hand I see multiple places in Git's code where printing to stderr is (mis-)used for informational messages, probably to separate output to be consumed by humans from output to be consumed by machines, like you do here.

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Sebastian Schuberth
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Message 10 of 22 in “[RFC_PATCHv4 0/7] Git submodule labels”
  1. Stefan BellerMar 22, 2016
  2. 1/7 git submodule: teach `add` to label submodulesStefan Beller, Mar 22, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016
  5. 2/7 submodule-config: keep labels aroundStefan Beller, Mar 22, 2016
  6. 3/7 submodule-config: add method to check for being labeledStefan Beller, Mar 22, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016
  8. Stefan BellerMar 23, 2016
  9. 4/7 submodule init: redirect stdout to stderrStefan Beller, Mar 22, 2016
  10. Sebastian SchuberthMar 22, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016
  12. Stefan BellerMar 22, 2016
  13. Sebastian SchuberthMar 22, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016
  15. 5/7 submodule update: respect submodule.actionOnLabelStefan Beller, Mar 22, 2016
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2016
  17. Stefan BellerMar 23, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2016
  19. Stefan BellerMar 24, 2016
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2016
  21. 6/7 clone: allow specification of submodules to be clonedStefan Beller, Mar 22, 2016
  22. 7/7 WIP status/diff: respect submodule.actionOnLabelStefan Beller, Mar 22, 2016

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