From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,URI_HEX shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CCD1F991 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2017 17:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751364AbdHFR7O (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2017 13:59:14 -0400 Received: from mwork.nabble.com ([162.253.133.43]:52120 "EHLO mwork.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331AbdHFR7O (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2017 13:59:14 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 324 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:59:14 EDT Received: from mjim.nabble.com (unknown [162.253.133.84]) by mwork.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1985559AEA5BD for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2017 10:53:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 10:53:50 -0700 (MST) From: prateekrungta To: git@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1502042030108-7657477.post@n2.nabble.com> Subject: git checkout's stderr v stdout usage MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org ``` git checkout -b new_branch ``` Git does what's asked except that Git's success response ("Switched to a new branch 'new_branch'"), goes to to stderr instead of stdout. This feels against standard unix conventions of what to output to stderr v stdout. It's an extra jump that people scripting `Git` keep running into when they encounter this behaviour. For e.g. other users have complained about this as far back as 2010: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Bugreport-Git-responds-with-stderr-instead-of-stdout-td4959280.html I'd like to suggest changing informational messages to stdout, and erroneous ones to stderr. May I submit a patch to change this behaviour? -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-checkout-s-stderr-v-stdout-usage-tp7657477.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.