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From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Jens.Lehmann@web.de, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC_PATCHv4 4/7] submodule init: redirect stdout to stderr
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:46:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuMs4D0LeMvdcS0yzKoQgmE+UTb+QFfOkSy7T20PbH86UQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458612372-10966-5-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

> Reroute the output of stdout to stderr as it is just informative
> messages, not to be consumed by machines.

Just wondering, what's Git's policy on this? This message is neither
an error nor a warning, but just purely informational. As such it
semantically does not belong to stderr, or? On the other hand I see
multiple places in Git's code where printing to stderr is (mis-)used
for informational messages, probably to separate output to be consumed
by humans from output to be consumed by machines, like you do here.

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-22  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-22  2:06 [RFC_PATCHv4 0/7] Git submodule labels Stefan Beller
2016-03-22  2:06 ` [RFC_PATCHv4 1/7] git submodule: teach `add` to label submodules Stefan Beller
2016-03-22 22:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-22 22:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-22  2:06 ` [RFC_PATCHv4 2/7] submodule-config: keep labels around Stefan Beller
2016-03-22  2:06 ` [RFC_PATCHv4 3/7] submodule-config: add method to check for being labeled Stefan Beller
2016-03-22 22:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-23 21:05     ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-22  2:06 ` [RFC_PATCHv4 4/7] submodule init: redirect stdout to stderr Stefan Beller
2016-03-22  7:46   ` Sebastian Schuberth [this message]
2016-03-22 16:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-22 16:47       ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-22 16:56         ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-03-22 17:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-22  2:06 ` [RFC_PATCHv4 5/7] submodule update: respect submodule.actionOnLabel Stefan Beller
2016-03-22 22:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-23 23:21     ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-24  0:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-24 19:54         ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-24 21:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-22  2:06 ` [RFC_PATCHv4 6/7] clone: allow specification of submodules to be cloned Stefan Beller
2016-03-22  2:06 ` [RFC_PATCHv4 7/7] WIP status/diff: respect submodule.actionOnLabel Stefan Beller

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