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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Trevor Saunders <tbsaunde@tbsaunde.org>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bisect: improve output when bad commit is found
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 17:42:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150513214228.GA17350@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD14LuyaVcoNHxR00ZeGgHWXbuW_QdVf4YqZWzgMdufUjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:39:41AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> > It is not clear to me that people are actually scripting around the
> > output. Between the exit code and the stable output in BISECT_LOG, that
> > seems like a much more preferable way for scripted uses to find out what
> > happened.
> >
> > Of course, that is not a guarantee that nobody scraped stderr, but at
> > least it makes me feel better that they're Doing It Wrong. :)
> 
> Aren't we sending the "XXXX is the first bad commit" and the diff-tree
> to stdout?

Good point. I'm much more sympathetic to people scraping stdout than
stderr. I do still think we would do better to direct them to more
robust formats, though.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-12 23:19 [PATCH v2] bisect: improve output when bad commit is found Trevor Saunders
2015-05-12 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-13  0:54   ` Trevor Saunders
2015-05-13  1:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-13  1:36       ` Jeff King
2015-05-13  5:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-13  9:39         ` Christian Couder
2015-05-13 21:42           ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-13  9:10       ` Christian Couder
2015-05-13 17:25         ` Trevor Saunders

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