Re: [PATCH 04/10] shell helpers usage: always send help to stderr

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It also is somewhat sad that you needed to refer to a random blog you
found on the Internet whose punch line was essentially what I already
said before you finally decide to listen to me X-<. I somehow expected
that over the years you worked with me you learned I had a reasonable
taste in designing these things...

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>     git --help |grep pull
>>
>> instead of
>>
>>     git --help 2>&1 |grep pull
>
> Not just that.  It makes me sad that it is unpredictable which
> stream a project happens to have chosen to send its help text and I
> end up almost always doing
>
>     random-command --help 2>&1 | less
>
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