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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost•net>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: Tim Olsen <tim@brooklynpenguin•com>
Subject: Re: fatal output from git-show really wants a terminal
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:10:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812101010.14868.bss03@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ghop5d$qud$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Wednesday 2008 December 10 10:01:49 you wrote:
>It appears that when outputting a fatal error, git-show will choose
>stdout over stderr if stdout is a terminal and stderr is not.  How do I
>redirect the error but still allow stdout to be displayed?

Gah, I think that's really bad behavior. Anyway, something like:
git show 12345 2>/dev/null | cat
should work.  Neither stdout nor stderr will be a terminal, but stdout will be 
displayed to your terminal.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 16:01 fatal output from git-show really wants a terminal Tim Olsen
2008-12-10 16:10 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]
2008-12-10 19:46 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-12-10 20:10   ` Tim Olsen
2008-12-10 22:24   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
     [not found]     ` <alpine.DEB.1.00.0812111015140.18321@eeepc-johanness>
2008-12-11 16:51       ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-11 21:55         ` Jeff King
2008-12-11 22:45           ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-11 22:59             ` Jeff King
2008-12-11 23:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-15  8:15               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-15  8:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-15  8:25                 ` Jeff King

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