Re: [PATCH] Print progress message to stderr, not stdout

["Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>]

On 02/12/06, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> > Printing progress messages to stdout causes them to get mixed up with
> > the actual output of the program. Using stderr is much better, since
> > the user can then redirect the two components separately.
>
> This patch breaks qgit.
>
> GUI interface to stgit pop and push commands is broken because a
> command that prints to stderr is considered a failing one by qgit.
>
> I would kindly ask you to:
>
> 1 - Revert the patch. That would be the best. You can use a prefix to
> printed message instead, see git pull, something like 'stg: bla bla
> bla' . In any case, IMHO, using stderr for normal activity logging
> does not sound like a great idea in general.
>
> 2 - At least add a '-v' '--verbose' option that defaults to quiet so
> to not break back compatibility.

Since there are other tools relying on a clean stderr, I think I would
revert it and add a verbose flag and/or config option. Karl, any
thoughts on this (since you sent the patch)?

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