Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff: make "too many files" rename warning optional

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:28:18AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

quoted

At the moment I don't think there is a good way in Tcl to get hold of
the stderr output if a subcommand returns a non-zero exit status, but
ignore it if the exit status is 0, other than by redirecting stderr to
a temporary file, which has its own problems.  Tcl can bundle stderr
in with stdout, or ignore it, or take it as an error indication, or
send it to a file.

So if git commands can avoid writing non-error messages to stderr,
that will make my life easier...

In that case, Junio, perhaps we should restrict this particular warning
just to merge.

I am not sure if we really want to work around Tcl's braindamage like
that.

There is no stdwarn or stdinfo stream and I think it is a bug on the
receiving end to assume that anything that comes to stderr is an error.