worktree: send "chatty" messages to stderr

The order in which the stdout and stderr streams are flushed is not
guaranteed to be the same across platforms or `libc` implementations.
This lack of determinism can lead to anomalous and potentially confusing
output if normal (stdout) output is flushed after error (stderr) output.
For instance, the following output which clearly indicates a failure due
to a fatal error:

    % git worktree add ../foo bar
    Preparing worktree (checking out 'bar')
    fatal: 'bar' is already checked out at '.../wherever'

has been reported[1] on Microsoft Windows to appear as:

    % git worktree add ../foo bar
    fatal: 'bar' is already checked out at '.../wherever'
    Preparing worktree (checking out 'bar')

which may confuse the reader into thinking that the command somehow
recovered and ran to completion despite the error.

This problem crops up because the "chatty" status message "Preparing
worktree" is sent to stdout, whereas the "fatal" error message is sent
to stderr. One way to fix this would be to flush stdout manually before
git-worktree reports any errors to stderr.

However, common practice in Git is for "chatty" messages to be sent to
stderr. Therefore, a more appropriate fix is to adjust git-worktree to
conform to that practice by sending its "chatty" messages to stderr
rather than stdout as is currently the case.

There may be concern that relocating messages from stdout to stderr
could break existing tooling, however, these messages are already
internationalized, thus are unstable. And, indeed, the "Preparing
worktree" message has already been the subject of somewhat significant
changes in 2c27002 (worktree: improve message when creating a new
worktree, 2018-04-24). Moreover, there is existing precedent, such as
68b939b (clone: send diagnostic messages to stderr, 2013-09-18) which
likewise relocated "chatty" messages from stdout to stderr for
git-clone.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CA+34VNLj6VB1kCkA=MfM7TZR+6HgqNi5-UaziAoCXacSVkch4A@mail.gmail.com/T/

Reported-by: Baruch Burstein <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: sunshineco

builtin/worktree.c

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void delete_worktrees_dir_if_empty(void)
 static void prune_worktree(const char *id, const char *reason)
 {
 	if (show_only || verbose)
-		printf_ln(_("Removing %s/%s: %s"), "worktrees", id, reason);
+		fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Removing %s/%s: %s"), "worktrees", id, reason);
 	if (!show_only)
 		delete_git_dir(id);
 }
@@ -418,24 +418,24 @@ static void print_preparing_worktree_line(int detach,
 	if (force_new_branch) {
 		struct commit *commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(new_branch);
 		if (!commit)
-			printf_ln(_("Preparing worktree (new branch '%s')"), new_branch);
+			fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Preparing worktree (new branch '%s')"), new_branch);
 		else
-			printf_ln(_("Preparing worktree (resetting branch '%s'; was at %s)"),
+			fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Preparing worktree (resetting branch '%s'; was at %s)"),
 				  new_branch,
 				  find_unique_abbrev(&commit->object.oid, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
 	} else if (new_branch) {
-		printf_ln(_("Preparing worktree (new branch '%s')"), new_branch);
+		fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Preparing worktree (new branch '%s')"), new_branch);
 	} else {
 		struct strbuf s = STRBUF_INIT;
 		if (!detach && !strbuf_check_branch_ref(&s, branch) &&
 		    ref_exists(s.buf))
-			printf_ln(_("Preparing worktree (checking out '%s')"),
+			fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Preparing worktree (checking out '%s')"),
 				  branch);
 		else {
 			struct commit *commit = lookup_commit_reference_by_name(branch);
 			if (!commit)
 				die(_("invalid reference: %s"), branch);
-			printf_ln(_("Preparing worktree (detached HEAD %s)"),
+			fprintf_ln(stderr, _("Preparing worktree (detached HEAD %s)"),
 				  find_unique_abbrev(&commit->object.oid, DEFAULT_ABBREV));
 		}
 		strbuf_release(&s);
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ static int remove_worktree(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix)
 static void report_repair(int iserr, const char *path, const char *msg, void *cb_data)
 {
 	if (!iserr) {
-		printf_ln(_("repair: %s: %s"), msg, path);
+		fprintf_ln(stderr, _("repair: %s: %s"), msg, path);
 	} else {
 		int *exit_status = (int *)cb_data;
 		fprintf_ln(stderr, _("error: %s: %s"), msg, path);

t/t2401-worktree-prune.sh

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ test_expect_success 'worktree prune on normal repo' '
 test_expect_success 'prune files inside $GIT_DIR/worktrees' '
 	mkdir .git/worktrees &&
 	: >.git/worktrees/abc &&
-	git worktree prune --verbose >actual &&
+	git worktree prune --verbose 2>actual &&
 	cat >expect <<EOF &&
 Removing worktrees/abc: not a valid directory
 EOF
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ test_expect_success 'prune directories without gitdir' '
 	cat >expect <<EOF &&
 Removing worktrees/def: gitdir file does not exist
 EOF
-	git worktree prune --verbose >actual &&
+	git worktree prune --verbose 2>actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees/def &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ test_expect_success SANITY 'prune directories with unreadable gitdir' '
 	: >.git/worktrees/def/def &&
 	: >.git/worktrees/def/gitdir &&
 	chmod u-r .git/worktrees/def/gitdir &&
-	git worktree prune --verbose >actual &&
+	git worktree prune --verbose 2>actual &&
 	test_i18ngrep "Removing worktrees/def: unable to read gitdir file" actual &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees/def &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ test_expect_success 'prune directories with invalid gitdir' '
 	mkdir -p .git/worktrees/def/abc &&
 	: >.git/worktrees/def/def &&
 	: >.git/worktrees/def/gitdir &&
-	git worktree prune --verbose >actual &&
+	git worktree prune --verbose 2>actual &&
 	test_i18ngrep "Removing worktrees/def: invalid gitdir file" actual &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees/def &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ test_expect_success 'prune directories with gitdir pointing to nowhere' '
 	mkdir -p .git/worktrees/def/abc &&
 	: >.git/worktrees/def/def &&
 	echo "$(pwd)"/nowhere >.git/worktrees/def/gitdir &&
-	git worktree prune --verbose >actual &&
+	git worktree prune --verbose 2>actual &&
 	test_i18ngrep "Removing worktrees/def: gitdir file points to non-existent location" actual &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees/def &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ test_expect_success 'prune duplicate (linked/linked)' '
 	git worktree add --detach w2 &&
 	sed "s/w2/w1/" .git/worktrees/w2/gitdir >.git/worktrees/w2/gitdir.new &&
 	mv .git/worktrees/w2/gitdir.new .git/worktrees/w2/gitdir &&
-	git worktree prune --verbose >actual &&
+	git worktree prune --verbose 2>actual &&
 	test_i18ngrep "duplicate entry" actual &&
 	test -d .git/worktrees/w1 &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees/w2
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ test_expect_success 'prune duplicate (main/linked)' '
 	git -C repo worktree add --detach ../wt &&
 	rm -fr wt &&
 	mv repo wt &&
-	git -C wt worktree prune --verbose >actual &&
+	git -C wt worktree prune --verbose 2>actual &&
 	test_i18ngrep "duplicate entry" actual &&
 	! test -d .git/worktrees/wt
 '

t/t2402-worktree-list.sh

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ test_expect_success '"list" all worktrees with prunable consistent with "prune"'
 	git worktree list >out &&
 	grep "/prunable  *[0-9a-f].* prunable$" out &&
 	! grep "/unprunable  *[0-9a-f].* unprunable$" out &&
-	git worktree prune --verbose >out &&
+	git worktree prune --verbose 2>out &&
 	test_i18ngrep "^Removing worktrees/prunable" out &&
 	test_i18ngrep ! "^Removing worktrees/unprunable" out
 '

t/t2406-worktree-repair.sh

@@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ test_corrupt_gitfile () {
 	git worktree add --detach corrupt &&
 	git -C corrupt rev-parse --absolute-git-dir >expect &&
 	eval "$butcher" &&
-	git -C "$repairdir" worktree repair >out 2>err &&
-	test_i18ngrep "$problem" out &&
-	test_must_be_empty err &&
+	git -C "$repairdir" worktree repair 2>err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "$problem" err &&
 	git -C corrupt rev-parse --absolute-git-dir >actual &&
 	test_cmp expect actual
 }
@@ -130,42 +129,38 @@ test_expect_success 'repair broken gitdir' '
 	sed s,orig/\.git$,moved/.git, .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir >expect &&
 	rm .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir &&
 	mv orig moved &&
-	git worktree repair moved >out 2>err &&
+	git worktree repair moved 2>err &&
 	test_cmp expect .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir &&
-	test_i18ngrep "gitdir unreadable" out &&
-	test_must_be_empty err
+	test_i18ngrep "gitdir unreadable" err
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'repair incorrect gitdir' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf orig moved && git worktree prune" &&
 	git worktree add --detach orig &&
 	sed s,orig/\.git$,moved/.git, .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir >expect &&
 	mv orig moved &&
-	git worktree repair moved >out 2>err &&
+	git worktree repair moved 2>err &&
 	test_cmp expect .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir &&
-	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect" out &&
-	test_must_be_empty err
+	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect" err
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'repair gitdir (implicit) from linked worktree' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf orig moved && git worktree prune" &&
 	git worktree add --detach orig &&
 	sed s,orig/\.git$,moved/.git, .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir >expect &&
 	mv orig moved &&
-	git -C moved worktree repair >out 2>err &&
+	git -C moved worktree repair 2>err &&
 	test_cmp expect .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir &&
-	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect" out &&
-	test_must_be_empty err
+	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect" err
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'unable to repair gitdir (implicit) from main worktree' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf orig moved && git worktree prune" &&
 	git worktree add --detach orig &&
 	cat .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir >expect &&
 	mv orig moved &&
-	git worktree repair >out 2>err &&
+	git worktree repair 2>err &&
 	test_cmp expect .git/worktrees/orig/gitdir &&
-	test_must_be_empty out &&
 	test_must_be_empty err
 '
 
@@ -178,12 +173,11 @@ test_expect_success 'repair multiple gitdir files' '
 	sed s,orig2/\.git$,moved2/.git, .git/worktrees/orig2/gitdir >expect2 &&
 	mv orig1 moved1 &&
 	mv orig2 moved2 &&
-	git worktree repair moved1 moved2 >out 2>err &&
+	git worktree repair moved1 moved2 2>err &&
 	test_cmp expect1 .git/worktrees/orig1/gitdir &&
 	test_cmp expect2 .git/worktrees/orig2/gitdir &&
-	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect:.*orig1/gitdir$" out &&
-	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect:.*orig2/gitdir$" out &&
-	test_must_be_empty err
+	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect:.*orig1/gitdir$" err &&
+	test_i18ngrep "gitdir incorrect:.*orig2/gitdir$" err
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'repair moved main and linked worktrees' '