From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 00:45:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] shell helpers usage: always send help to stderr
Message-ID: <xmqqlh3sotoh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79ka7uPxLKVU7Dn-4yHyN1BMgeG33_7LJDShF3UVjrT2fgQ@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

>     git --help |grep pull
>
> instead of
>
>     git --help 2>&1 |grep pull

Not just that.  It makes me sad that it is unpredictable which
stream a project happens to have chosen to send its help text and I
end up almost always doing

    random-command --help 2>&1 | less