On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:32:46PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> PS The exit value of the scp process can be used to flag
> success/failure, so there is no need to actually parse its stderr.

Indeed it can, but IIUC printing the stderr from scp is used to
diagnose *why* it failed.

> I guess this is a wishlist bug then: I wish the scp message were
> processed or discarded so as to make this experience less scary.

David, perhaps darcs should the suppress scp stderr stream by default
(re-enabling it by an environment variable), or suppress it by default
for "expected" failures (such as copying _darcs/format for a darcs1
repo)?



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