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Re: Writing to err vs std

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2023, 00:50 UTC
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Jay Asbury <vbjay.net@gmail.com> writes:
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> Thanks for the clarification. Some context.
> https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/issues/9643 which is a
> side effect of https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/9562
>
> So I just wanted to get some clarification on when err vs std should
> be used to eliminate confusion.

I thought that the practice to equate an error with any byte shown to the standard error died long ago with Tcl ;-)

Thanks.
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