Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > All data producers and data consumers *in git* use band #2 to transport > error messages and progress report. Correct; I wrote that in the big comment at the beginning of sideband.c. Of course we could enhance the protocol to use more bands as needed. #2 and #3 have their own meanings and they both map well to "send to stderr". -- 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