On 03 Apr 2005 18:14:51 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > > 3) Is the problem of mixed stdout and stderr in some commands fixed? > > (For example, in commit after import, half of "* messages" go to stdout > > and half to stderr.) The tla behaviour is better; stderr is for errors. > > We had a long discussion on irc about this, the current strategy is to > make stdout contain /only/ the out the user asked for. I.e. the output > of baz diff to stdout will be just the diff itself, no chatter about > revision building etc. All miscellaneous output will be on stderr. > > For front ends we'll provide a simple mechanism to channel the chatter > to either stdout or to an arbitrary fd.
In any case, please add --no-chatter|--quiet to all affected commands. I don't currently care about the chatter (until there is some standard parsable format), but I care that stderr contains errors/warnings only. Regards, Mikhael. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
