Miles Bader venit, vidit, dixit 17.05.2010 14:07: > Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. > > Usage info specifically requested by the user is not error output, it is > the output of the command. It should be output to stdout, not stderr. Well sure it is, just as I wrote. So do you suggest that the file handle should depend on the use case? Care to implement? > [Note that for GNU progs, this behavior is explicitly required by the > GNU coding standards, and I think it's a pretty reasonable rule.] Fortunately, Git is not GNU software. Michael -- 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