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

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

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.


Thanks
Marco

P.S: I cannot change the stderr == 'something has gone wrong'
behaviour because the interface to git commands works with this, and,
BTW, _all_ the git commands respect the behaviour stderr == empty ->