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From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] teach am and rebase -q/--quiet
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:07:24 -0700
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> There are many valid cases where it makes sense to use stderr for messages
> that are not errors (e.g. diagnostics, prompts, progress reports, and
> informational messages that otherwise would clutter machine parsable
> output meant to go to stdout).
>
> I do not understand why some people seem to think stderr is only for
> errors.  I think we even saw a broken interpretive language environment
> where the system considers it an error if a program it launched said
> anything to stderr, instead of correctly diagnosing the exit status from
> it?
>
> It is a disease.
>   

If I understand you correctly, wrapping them in quiet checks is fine.
Also, thanks for the explanation. I'll consider my self inoculated.