Re: [RFC][PATCH] Print the usage string on stdout instead of stderr.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

[Note that for GNU progs, this behavior is explicitly required by the
GNU coding standards, and I think it's a pretty reasonable rule.]

Fortunately, Git is not GNU software.

The point is not that git must follow these standards, but that it''s
a reasonable guideline (as are many of the GNU standards), and it's
generally useful if free software such as git is broadly consistent
with other free software.  For instance, git uses GNU-style long
command-line option syntax, and this is a good thing.

-Miles

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