Re: Anyone know why git ls-remote output might be corrupted?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2023, 18:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo7loo42s.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <e6f9334dd93c683b97ecdf61eb06bbe28b0a4e30.camel@mad-scientist.net>

Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> writes:

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> I also checked and indeed, the git ls-remote command does print to both
> stdout and stderr as part of its "standard" behavior:
>
>   $ git ls-remote --heads >/dev/null
>   From git@git:myrepo
>
> This is unexpected to me, although of course there's nothing inherently
> wrong with it but usually you don't expect "regular" output to go to
> stderr.  I suppose the idea is that people can run:
>
>   $ git ls-remote --heads 2>/dev/null
>
> if they want just the output without the header.

The above sounds like a reasonable expectation; then the issue is there are some fflush missing when the command writes to one stream and switches to write to another stream?

Thanks.