On Thursday 2008 December 11 03:15:47 you wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 13:46:50 you wrote:
>> >On Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008, Tim Olsen wrote:
>> >> It appears that when outputting a fatal error, git-show will choose
>> >> stdout over stderr if stdout is a terminal and stderr is not.
>> >
>> >This is by design.
>>
>> Then it is poor design. :P j/k
>
>Read up on the reasoning before trolling, will ya? It's all in the Git
>history.
Seeing how I'm new, and this message indicated I had screwed up, I starting
going through the 'git log' looking for a commit message that either
documented this behavior, or indicated the commit had documented this
behavior.
Initially, I was looking for 'stdout' or 'stderr', and found many unrelated
commits. I then figured it was part of the PAGER support, and began
searching for that. I did find an indication of why stdout and stderr are
both redirected to the PAGER's stdin -- but that makes sense to me; I wasn't
questioning it. At least not too much -- but when the user indicates stderr
and stdout should go to different locations, shouldn't they?
I was mainly questioning using a pager AT ALL when the git command is used in
a non-interactive environment, and how git detects an interactive invocation.
I feel this should be done the same way a (POSIX standard) shell detects
interactivity, and that in a non-interactive environment git should not
default to using PAGER.
Now, I certainly could have missed the commit message / commit with
rationale / documentation. 'git log' output is a long document, and I maybe
using the wrong keywords for my search. It also is not all the documentation
that is out there. I'm not afraid to RTFM; but I'm not having much luck
finding the right parts to R.
Finally, I didn't mean to offend. I was hoping the smiley (":P") and "j/k"
would indicate that a was only half serious and know that I don't have the
benefit of following the project closely for very long. I'm appreciative of
the hard work that goes into git and don't mean to belittle that effort.
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