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Re: Bugreport: Git responds with stderr instead of stdout

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 25, 2010, 19:32 UTC
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<m2h51dd1af81004251232ue621ca42r7168429f45d20461@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 19:22, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 06:24:43PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 18:10, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I can't really say if it's actually a bug, or not, but as to your
>> > question about where to file a bug report: You just did.  This mailing
>> > list is the correct place.
>>
>> I've had some issues scripting `git fetch` because on error it'll
>> print to stdout and not stderr.
>
> Errors should go to stderr, so I imagine patches would be welcome. Which
> messages went to stdout?

I can't recall exactly now. Looking at fetch.c I can't see anything obvious, I'll report anything if I spot it in the future.

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Message 5 of 19 in “Bugreport: Git responds with stderr instead of stdout”
  1. Jack DesertApr 25, 2010
  2. Jacob HelwigApr 25, 2010
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 25, 2010
  4. Jeff KingApr 25, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 25, 2010
  6. Jeff KingApr 25, 2010
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 12, 2010
  8. fetch: don't output non-errors on stderrÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 24, 2010
  9. fetch: don't output non-errors on stderrÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jun 25, 2010
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2010
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 25, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2010
  13. Jeff KingJun 26, 2010
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 26, 2010
  15. Tay Ray ChuanJun 26, 2010
  16. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 26, 2010
  17. Jeff KingJun 26, 2010
  18. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 26, 2010
  19. Jack DesertApr 25, 2010

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