On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:43 AM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote:
>   prove t5547-push-quarantine.sh :: -v
>
> The Travis tests do exactly this (along with --tee to actually save the
> output). It seems like a minor miracle that this is the first test
> output that has actually triggered as TAP input. I'd suggest that the
> problem is not in the test, though, but that our "--verbose" option is
> unsuitable for using with a TAP harness.
>
> The obvious fix would be to send "--verbose" output to stderr, but I
> suspect that would end up annoying for people who do:
>
>   ./t5547-push-quarantine.sh -v | less
>
> to read long output. Probably we need some option like "--log" which
> logs in the same way that "--tee" does, but _without_ sending the data
> to stdout. Naively, that just means replacing the "tee" invocation with
> "cat", but I suspect it will be a lot more complicated than that,
> because we still need to let the TAP output go to stdout.
>
> -Peff

Can we determine that we're running with something monitoring the TAP
output? Because then we could make verbose go to stderr instead
dynamically?

Thanks,
Jake

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