On Jan 5, 2008 9:36 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > IOW, I do have much less objections to what your patch actually > does, than I have problems with the way the reason for the > change is stated. The change is not fixing anything to conform > to some standard behaviour. It is more about bending > (admittedly only slightly) backwards to help broken callers. > That is what I have most trouble with. > > Thanks for your understanding. --------------------- CUT ----------------------------------- Subject: [PATCH] git-stash: use stdout instead of stderr for not error messages Some scripts/libraries commonly check stderr to detect a failing command. This is not standard nor good behaviour but is quite common and in this case the change does not seem to hurt. Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-stash.sh | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh index 06cb177..4d5e5c0 100755 --- a/git-stash.sh +++ b/git-stash.sh @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ save_stash () { if no_changes then - echo >&2 'No local changes to save' + echo 'No local changes to save' exit 0 fi test -f "$GIT_DIR/logs/$ref_stash" || @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ save_stash () { git update-ref -m "$stash_msg" $ref_stash $w_commit || die "Cannot save the current status" - printf >&2 'Saved working directory and index state "%s"\n' "$stash_msg" + printf 'Saved working directory and index state "%s"\n' "$stash_msg" } have_stash () { @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ create) if test $# -eq 0 then save_stash && - echo >&2 '(To restore them type "git stash apply")' && + echo '(To restore them type "git stash apply")' && git-reset --hard else usage -- 1.5.4.rc2.18.g530e6-dirty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html