Re: [PATCH 04/10] shell helpers usage: always send help to stderr

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

    git --help |grep pull

instead of

    git --help 2>&1 |grep pull

Not just that.  It makes me sad that it is unpredictable which
stream a project happens to have chosen to send its help text and I
end up almost always doing

    random-command --help 2>&1 | less

It also is somewhat sad that you needed to refer to a random blog you
found on the Internet whose punch line was essentially what I already
said before you finally decide to listen to me X-<. I somehow expected
that over the years you worked with me you learned I had a reasonable
taste in designing these things...

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

    git --help |grep pull

instead of

    git --help 2>&1 |grep pull

Not just that.  It makes me sad that it is unpredictable which
stream a project happens to have chosen to send its help text and I
end up almost always doing

    random-command --help 2>&1 | less