git checkout's stderr v stdout usage

From: prateekrungta <prateek86400@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git checkout's stderr v stdout usage
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 10:53:50 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1502042030108-7657477.post@n2.nabble.com> (raw)

```
  git checkout -b new_branch 
```

Git does what's asked except that Git's success response ("Switched to a new
branch 'new_branch'"), goes to to stderr instead of stdout. 

This feels against standard unix conventions of what to output to stderr v
stdout. It's an extra jump that people scripting `Git` keep running into
when they encounter this behaviour. For e.g. other users have complained
about this as far back as 2010:
http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Bugreport-Git-responds-with-stderr-instead-of-stdout-td4959280.html

I'd like to suggest changing informational messages to stdout, and erroneous
ones to stderr. May I submit a patch to change this behaviour? 

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