# can't redirect git's progress output (stderr)

3 messages from 2010-11-01 to 2010-11-01. Participants: Delan Azabani, Andreas Schwab, Torsten Bögershausen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25607

## Delan Azabani, 2010-11-01 12:40

Subject: can't redirect git's progress output (stderr)
Message-ID: <4CCEB53E.9080102@azabani.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CCEB53E.9080102%40azabani.com

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Hi all,

I'm writing a URI handler for git that uses bash/zenity to allow the
user to clone a git repository when a git:// link is clicked in a browser.

I'm having a bit of trouble getting git's output into zenity, however.
git outputs its progress messages (everything except the "Initializing"
message) on stderr, which shouldn't be a problem. Something weird has
happened though; the moment I try to pipe git's stderr to stdout or a
file, it disappears.

A simple way to test this:

git clone git://your.favourite/git/repo 2> file1
git clone git://your.favourite/git/repo 2>&1 > file2

file1 will be empty (why?) and file2 will contain only the
"Initializing" message, which came from stdout.

TL;DR why can't I pipe git's stderr output?

Help would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance.

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## Andreas Schwab, 2010-11-01 14:42

Subject: Re: can't redirect git's progress output (stderr)
Message-ID: <m2r5f5cdh9.fsf@igel.home>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m2r5f5cdh9.fsf%40igel.home
In-Reply-To: <4CCEB53E.9080102@azabani.com>

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Delan Azabani <delan@azabani.com> writes:

> TL;DR why can't I pipe git's stderr output?

git-clone(1):

       --progress
           Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by default
           when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q is specified. This
           flag forces progress status even if the standard error stream is
           not directed to a terminal.

Andreas.

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## Torsten Bögershausen, 2010-11-01 20:38

Subject: Re: can't redirect git's progress output (stderr)
Message-ID: <4CCF2532.3070703@web.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CCF2532.3070703%40web.de
In-Reply-To: <4CCEB53E.9080102@azabani.com>

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Try
git clone git://your.favourite/git/repo > file2 2>&1
/Torsten


On 01.11.10 13:40, Delan Azabani wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a URI handler for git that uses bash/zenity to allow the
> user to clone a git repository when a git:// link is clicked in a browser.
>
> I'm having a bit of trouble getting git's output into zenity, however.
> git outputs its progress messages (everything except the "Initializing"
> message) on stderr, which shouldn't be a problem. Something weird has
> happened though; the moment I try to pipe git's stderr to stdout or a
> file, it disappears.
>
> A simple way to test this:
>
> git clone git://your.favourite/git/repo 2>  file1
> git clone git://your.favourite/git/repo 2>&1>  file2
>
> file1 will be empty (why?) and file2 will contain only the
> "Initializing" message, which came from stdout.
>
> TL;DR why can't I pipe git's stderr output?
>
> Help would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance.
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