From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail•com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com>,
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 10:15:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqshziigd6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd1qmjxrl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:14:06 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 17:15 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
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 [this message]
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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