Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am kind of confused. > > When the doc there says "no output", I read it as "no output", and > no other restriction (like suppressing an error diagnosis, which is > not even sent to the standard output stream). Ah, OK, so you were saying with 1/2 that "output" could mean "something sent to standard error stream" as well and can be helped with a more explicit clarification. Makes sense to me (sort-of).