On 2006-12-04 09:17:16 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 02/12/06, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Printing progress messages to stdout causes them to get mixed up
> > > with the actual output of the program. Using stderr is much
> > > better, since the user can then redirect the two components
> > > separately.
> >
> > This patch breaks qgit.
>
> Since there are other tools relying on a clean stderr, I think I
> would revert it and add a verbose flag and/or config option. Karl,
> any thoughts on this (since you sent the patch)?
I introduced this since I wanted to divert the output to a file, and
the progress message had no business being written to that file. But a
command line option to suppress progress messages would work just as
well if that's what git does.
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Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.treskal.com/kalle
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