From: Johan Herland Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:31:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/lib-gpg: fix gpgconf stderr redirect to /dev/null Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20171114051520.GU5144@zaya.teonanacatl.net> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> The message goes to the standard output stream since it was introduced in >> 809f38c8 ("git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 1/2", >> 2010-11-09) and 6abb3655 ("git notes merge: >> Manual conflict resolution, part 2/2", 2010-11-09). I do think it makes >> more sense to send it to the standard error stream, but just in case if the >> original author thinks of a reason why it shouldn't, let's summon Johan and >> ask his input. > > > Sounds like a good plan. If the message does move to stderr, there are also > a few tests in 3310 that need adjusted. They presume an error message from > `git notes merge`, but they only redirect stdout to the output file. > > While I was bored, I prepared a commit with these changes and confirmed the > test suite passes, in case we get an ACK from Johan. ACK :-) Error messages should go to stderr, and redirection in the tests should be fixed. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net