[PATCH] Make stdout hot

[Toby Johnson]

Jonathan Perret wrote:
> Toby, thank you for including the patch.
>
>   
>> Thanks Jonathan, I'll make your suggested change. My original intent
>> was
>> to have informative messages go to STDOUT and debugging info go to
>> STDERR but I'm not sure that was correctly adhered to or communicated
>> to anyone else (plus the distinction between the two is often
>>     
> subjective).
>
> Yes, I figured as much about the intent. At first blush it did seem
> a good idea to me too to send informative messages to STDOUT and
> errors/debug to STDERR, but thinking about it more, it does not
> make much sense : they are all messages, they have a very strong
> dependency on relative ordering so they must all go to the same
> stream. The name STDERR itself is confusing since it seems to
> imply that non-error-related output should go to STDOUT.
>
> In fact I think the only thing vss2svn could rightfully 
> write to STDOUT would be the subversion dump file, since it
> is the only actual "output" of the script (if that makes
> any sense). But I like the way it is now, always going to
> a file.
>   

True, I guess in an ideal world someone would just call:

vss2svn.exe | svnadmin load

But we're a long ways from there. :)