Re: [PATCH] builtin-remote: better handling of multiple remote HEADs

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

>        Bash allows both the standard output (file descriptor 1) and
>        the standard  error
>        output  (file  descriptor 2) to be redirected to the file whose
>        name is the expansion of word with this construct.
>
>        There are two formats for redirecting standard output and
>        standard error:
>
>               &>word
>        and
>               >&word
>
>        Of the two forms, the first is preferred.  This is semantically
>        equivalent to
>
>               >word 2>&1

Just to clarify, the above is not a recommendation for shell scripts in
git project.  The last one is the only one we recommend in our scripts.

By the say, does anybody know why bash people recommend &>word form?

Neither &>word nor >&word to send both stderr and stdout to the file is
from true Bourne, but at least the use of >&word form for this purpose is
more familiar to people who are used to Csh.