Activity log for bug #387717

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2009-06-16 08:30:50 David I bug added bug
2009-06-16 08:45:10 Robert Collins bzr: status New Incomplete
2009-06-16 11:51:54 Vincent Ladeuil bzr: importance Undecided Medium
2009-06-16 11:51:54 Vincent Ladeuil bzr: status Incomplete Confirmed
2009-06-16 11:52:36 Vincent Ladeuil summary STDERR being abused for "trivial" output progress report should be user configurable
2009-06-17 05:35:59 Martin Pool summary progress report should be user configurable don't want progress bars sent to stderr
2009-06-19 08:21:34 Martin Pool branch linked lp:~mbp/bzr/387717-progress-bar-tty
2009-06-19 08:44:17 Martin Pool bzr: status Confirmed In Progress
2009-06-19 08:44:17 Martin Pool bzr: assignee Martin Pool (mbp)
2009-06-30 05:17:59 Martin Pool summary don't want progress bars sent to stderr only send progress bars to stderr if it's a tty
2009-06-30 05:17:59 Martin Pool description I see that some non-error output from bzr commands (e.g. the progress bar during a status with a bzr+ssh parent repos) is being printed to STDERR. On *NIX systems STDERR is not intended for such output. It is an abuse of basic *NIX principles to use STDERR for non-error output. By using it for such "trivia" you risk annoying many UNIX (power-)users. If stderr is not a tty, progress bars should not be sent to it.
2009-07-23 05:58:36 Martin Pool bzr: status In Progress Fix Released