Re: [PATCH 0/2] the cat-file -e option doesn't work as documented

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

I am kind of confused.  

When the doc there says "no output", I read it as "no output", and
no other restriction (like suppressing an error diagnosis, which is
not even sent to the standard output stream).

Ah, OK, so you were saying with 1/2 that "output" could mean
"something sent to standard error stream" as well and can be helped
with a more explicit clarification.  Makes sense to me (sort-of).