Giuseppe Scrivano venit, vidit, dixit 17.05.2010 11:48: > Hello, > > I have noticed that the -h flag uses stderr to print the usage string, > is there any reason for it? As a general rule, regular output goes to stdout and error reports to stderr. Now, usage messages are displayed on specific request (-h) as well as when a command is used with wrong arguments. So the classification depends on the use case! But I reckon that even with '-h', usage strings are not exactly "regular output", so stderr looks more natural to me. More importantly, callers expect error messages on stderr, such as usage with wrong arguments. I don't think scripts would call commands with '-h', and if they do they do so on purpose and can parse stderr, knowing there is no stdout in this case. Michael P.S.: I guess this means NACK from me FWIIW. > > The small patch I have attached changes -h to print on stdout. > > Thanks, > Giuseppe > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html