From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:56:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] recv_sideband: Band #2 always goes to stderr
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903101153250.14295@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <49B61703.8030602@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> 
> This removes the last parameter of recv_sideband, by which the callers
> told which channel band #2 data should be written to. Since both callers
> of the function passed 2 for the parameter, we hereby remove the
> parameter and send band #2 to stderr explicitly using fprintf.

To be honest, I considered this myself.

But I think it is wrong.  Just because the current callers happen to 
output to stderr does not mean that we would not like sidebands that 
exchange binary data for other uses in the future.

I am thinking GitTorrent here.

And clearly, sideband support was written with future uses like that in 
mind, as it goes out of its way to transmit packets instead of strings.

Ciao,
Dscho