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@@ -31,3 +31,12 @@ Ikiwiki's git handling is sending a bunch of output to stderr.  The following pa
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 > (Also indented all the lines of your patch so markdown won't eat it :-) )
 > --[[smcv]]
+
+> Right, I don't like throwing stderr away because stderr is supposed to be
+> logged to error.log for a reason: To allow debugging problems.
+> It's unfortunate that git [abuses atderr](http://bugs.debian.org/447395),
+> outputting non-errors to it. That doesn't mean that git might not also
+> output actual error messages there. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I'm happy with the wrapper script solution, so this is [[done]].
+>> And this report is now here to point others to that solution.