From: Marco Costalba Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:20:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Print progress message to stderr, not stdout Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20061111121625.8988.45195.stgit@localhost> On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström wrote: > Printing progress messages to stdout causes them to get mixed up with > the actual output of the program. Using stderr is much better, since > the user can then redirect the two components separately. > This patch breaks qgit. GUI interface to stgit pop and push commands is broken because a command that prints to stderr is considered a failing one by qgit. I would kindly ask you to: 1 - Revert the patch. That would be the best. You can use a prefix to printed message instead, see git pull, something like 'stg: bla bla bla' . In any case, IMHO, using stderr for normal activity logging does not sound like a great idea in general. 2 - At least add a '-v' '--verbose' option that defaults to quiet so to not break back compatibility. Thanks Marco P.S: I cannot change the stderr == 'something has gone wrong' behaviour because the interface to git commands works with this, and, BTW, _all_ the git commands respect the behaviour stderr == empty ->