From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:58:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: document which output goes to stdout vs. stderr
Message-ID: <YaldtR9udlozfx9Z@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20211202223110.22062-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com>

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 05:31:10PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> It has long been practice on this project for a command to emit its
> primary output to stdout so that it can be captured to a file or sent
> down a pipe, and to emit "chatty" messages (such as those reporting
> progress) to stderr so that they don't interfere with the primary
> output. However, this practice is not necessarily universal; another
> common practice is to send only error messages to stderr, and all other
> messages to stdout. Therefore, help newcomers out by documenting how
> stdout and stderr are used on this project.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes since v1[*]:
> 
> * tone down the commit message (peff)

:) This looks great to me. Thanks for doing it.

-Peff