Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:28:18AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > >> At the moment I don't think there is a good way in Tcl to get hold of >> the stderr output if a subcommand returns a non-zero exit status, but >> ignore it if the exit status is 0, other than by redirecting stderr to >> a temporary file, which has its own problems. Tcl can bundle stderr >> in with stdout, or ignore it, or take it as an error indication, or >> send it to a file. >> >> So if git commands can avoid writing non-error messages to stderr, >> that will make my life easier... > > In that case, Junio, perhaps we should restrict this particular warning > just to merge. I am not sure if we really want to work around Tcl's braindamage like that. There is no stdwarn or stdinfo stream and I think it is a bug on the receiving end to assume that anything that comes to stderr is an error. -- 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
