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Re: Git branch outputs usage message on stderr

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 15, 2025, 17:49 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> But there are a ton of commands, as you saw, and handling each one would
> be a pain. So it would probably be easier to just introduce a variant of
> usage_with_options() that writes to stdout (the underlying _internal
> function already does so, we'd just need a one-liner wrapper).
Yup, I was looking at the code involved and came to the same conclusion.
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