Dirk Gouders <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In the last chapter of this document, pipes are used in commands to > filter out the first/last trace messages. But according to git(1), > trace messages are sent to stderr if GIT_TRACE is set to '1', so those > commands do not produce the described results. > > Fix this by using the operator '|&' to additionally connect stderr to > stdin of the latter command. Isn't |& a bash-ism? upstream command >&2 | downstream command is how you would do the same more portably.