From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] shell helpers usage: always send help to stderr
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 18:17:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daXuMmuCx8q5pbo2RWcTYazCo+agLB6tspMdNZCh-n2HpQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlh3sotoh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
It also is somewhat sad that you needed to refer to a random blog you
found on the Internet whose punch line was essentially what I already
said before you finally decide to listen to me X-<. I somehow expected
that over the years you worked with me you learned I had a reasonable
taste in designing these things...
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> git --help |grep pull
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> git --help 2>&1 |grep pull
>
> Not just that. It makes me sad that it is unpredictable which
> stream a project happens to have chosen to send its help text and I
> end up almost always doing
>
> random-command --help 2>&1 | less
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-03 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-30 0:40 [PATCH 00/10] submodule output patches Stefan Beller
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 01/10] submodule deinit test: fix broken && chain in subshell Stefan Beller
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 02/10] submodule deinit: lose requirement for giving '.' Stefan Beller
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 03/10] submodule init: redirect stdout to stderr Stefan Beller
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 04/10] shell helpers usage: always send help " Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 23:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-02 23:44 ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-03 0:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-03 1:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 05/10] submodule add: send messages " Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 23:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] submodule deinit: " Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 23:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 07/10] submodule foreach: " Stefan Beller
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 08/10] submodule update: " Stefan Beller
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 09/10] submodule sync: " Stefan Beller
2016-04-30 0:40 ` [PATCH 10/10] submodule deinit: complain when given a file instead of a submodule Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 8:26 ` Per Cederqvist
2016-05-02 16:21 ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-02 17:00 ` Stefan Beller
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