Sayooj Surendran <sayooj.surendran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Hello, > Hi, > Noticed that the output of git checkout command is going to stderr > channel. Is this an intended behaviour? > git version: 2.45.2 > terminal output: > > ❯ git checkout -b test > stdout.txt 2> stderr.txt > ❯ cat stdout.txt > ❯ cat stderr.txt > Switched to a new branch 'test' Thanks for reporting, this seems to be as expected. Note that all chatty feedback is routed to stderr in Git. This is also documented in 'Documentation/CodingGuidelines': We make a distinction between a Git command's primary output and output which is merely chatty feedback (for instance, status messages, running transcript, or progress display), as well as error messages. Roughly speaking, a Git command's primary output is that which one might want to capture to a file or send down a pipe; its chatty output should not interfere with these use-cases. As such, primary output should be sent to the standard output stream (stdout), and chatty output should be sent to the standard error stream (stderr). Examples of commands which produce primary output include `git log`, `git show`, and `git branch --list` which generate output on the stdout stream. Thanks, Karthik
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