Comment 3 for bug 276610

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 276610] Re: uncommit output shouldn't go to stderr

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 07:37 +0000, William Fagan wrote:
>
> It seems like a lot of them are going to stderr so maybe this was a
> design choice. Not sure.

Indeed, its a design choice; I believe we document it in HACKING.

Basically we want:
 - the core output of a command to stdout
 - everything else to stderr

(so bzr -q command / -v command won't usually change the std output at
all, they will however add/remove output on stderr)

-Rob

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