On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 05:31:10PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote: > It has long been practice on this project for a command to emit its > primary output to stdout so that it can be captured to a file or sent > down a pipe, and to emit "chatty" messages (such as those reporting > progress) to stderr so that they don't interfere with the primary > output. However, this practice is not necessarily universal; another > common practice is to send only error messages to stderr, and all other > messages to stdout. Therefore, help newcomers out by documenting how > stdout and stderr are used on this project. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Changes since v1[*]: > > * tone down the commit message (peff) :) This looks great to me. Thanks for doing it. -Peff
