Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > Sebastian Schuberth <sschube...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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? > > Some people believe that a clean execution should not give anything > to stderr (Tcl is one example, IIRC), but I think the core part of > Git takes the opposite stance (probably unix tradition?). Anything > that is not the primary output of the program should go to stdout.
Ehh, "should go to" is obviously "should not go to". > > We may not have been very strict in code reviews to enfore it, and > especially on the fringes of the system it may be easy to find > violators, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
