bzr with bzr+ssh noisy and output muddled.

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:28:05AM +0200 I heard the voice of
David Ingamells, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I do see that the progress is printed to STDERR, but STDERR is not
> intended for such output. It is an abuse of basic UNIX principles to
> use STDERR for non-error output.

Actually, using stderr for spinners and such things that aren't
recordable as regular output is quite common.  Just looking at DVCSen,
for instance, mtn does the same thing.


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