Re: [PATCH 2/6] reflog: remove i18n legos in pruning message

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> These are for human consumption; they used to go to standard error
> stream back when it was written at 4264dc1 (git reflog expire,
> 2006-12-19).

Good.  Thanks for clarifying and for looking that up.

Why was this changed to write to standard output in 1389d9dd (reflog
expire --fix-stale, 2007-01-06)?  Would changing it back some time
to follow the usual "progress and diagnostics go to stderr" pattern
be worthwhile?
---
 builtin/reflog.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git i/builtin/reflog.c w/builtin/reflog.c
index 062d7dad..90e820a0 100644
--- i/builtin/reflog.c
+++ w/builtin/reflog.c
@@ -327,11 +327,11 @@ static int expire_reflog_ent(unsigned char *osha1, unsigned char *nsha1,
 		hashcpy(cb->last_kept_sha1, nsha1);
 	}
 	if (cb->cmd->verbose)
-		printf("keep %s", message);
+		fprintf(stderr, "keep %s", message);
 	return 0;
  prune:
 	if (!cb->newlog || cb->cmd->verbose)
-		printf("%sprune %s", cb->newlog ? "" : "would ", message);
+		fprintf(stderr, "%sprune %s", cb->newlog ? "" : "would ", message);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -646,10 +646,10 @@ static int cmd_reflog_expire(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (cb.stalefix) {
 		init_revisions(&cb.revs, prefix);
 		if (cb.verbose)
-			printf("Marking reachable objects...");
+			fprintf(stderr, "Marking reachable objects...");
 		mark_reachable_objects(&cb.revs, 0, NULL);
 		if (cb.verbose)
-			putchar('\n');
+			fputc('\n', stderr);
 	}
 
 	if (do_all) {
--