On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 17:25, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Before the change error messages were drowned out by git-fetch's >> non-error update notices, which didn't need my attention. > > I don't understand this part; care to elaborate? I have a cron job (github-backup) that calls git fetch. Without this patch I have to run it as '> /dev/null 2>&1' and just rely on the exit code, with it I can just do '> /dev/null' and not ignore stderr, because non-error output isn't being sent there anymore. In short, the current git-fetch breaks the conventional *nix assumption that stderr only contains errors. With this patch errors go to stderr and normal output to stdout. -- 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