From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:39:30 GMT
Subject: Re: git push output goes into stderr
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Lynn Lin <lynn.xin.lin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> When I create a local branch and then push it to remote. I find that
> the output without error goes into stderr, is this expected?

when the two sides of the conversation have an established protocol to
talk to each other and exchange data, any extraneous stuff (progress
message, tracing/debugging logs...) will confuse the protocol.
Shunting that aside to STDERR helps avoid protocol confusion.