On 25.10.2019 16:02, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

My example is even worse (read: more convincing), though:

fatal: git uploadfata-lp: raemcokte :error:  upload-pnot our arcef k6: n4ot our ea4cr1e3f 36d45ea94fca1398e86a771eda009872d63adb28598f6a9
8e86a771eda009872d6ab2886

So maybe you want to use that?

OK.

Again, I don't think that it is wise to try to make this work for
arbitrary sizes of error messages.

 > My point is: I don't want to "fix" truncation. I actually think of it
 > as a feature

It would be helpful to hear opinions from someone else, before the patch 
is reworked significantly.

I know _which_ two processes battle for `stderr`.

I think I said the same in code comment, bullet 3, near t5516?