git sending messages to stderr on MacOS 10.8

Thomas Robitaille· Mar 16, 2014, 09:15 UTC · lore

I am using git version 1.8.4.2 installed on Mac using MacPorts. When e.g. cloning a repository, the cloning message is being sent to stderr, but I think it should be sent to stdout:

    In [8]: p = subprocess.Popen('git clone
git://github.com/embray/astropy'.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

    In [9]: p.stdout.read()
    Out[9]: ''

    In [10]: p.stderr.read()
    Out[10]: "Cloning into 'astropy'...\n"

Is this expected behavior, or a bug?

Thanks, Tom

Duy Nguyen· Mar 16, 2014, 09:51 UTC · re: Thomas Robitaille · lore

Re: git sending messages to stderr on MacOS 10.8

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I am using git version 1.8.4.2 installed on Mac using MacPorts. When
> e.g. cloning a repository, the cloning message is being sent to
> stderr, but I think it should be sent to stdout:
>
>     In [8]: p = subprocess.Popen('git clone
> git://github.com/embray/astropy'.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>
>     In [9]: p.stdout.read()
>     Out[9]: ''
>
>     In [10]: p.stderr.read()
>     Out[10]: "Cloning into 'astropy'...\n"
>
> Is this expected behavior, or a bug?

It's expected behavior. See 68b939b (clone: send diagnostic messages to stderr - 2013-09-18) for details.

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Duy