Store git fetch output in a txt file

Question

I want to store the output of this command in a text file and this was my attempt:

git fetch -v --dry-run >test.txt

All what happens is it continues to write to the console and creates an empty txt file. On a high level, I am writing a batch file to determine if there are changes to update my local copy of the repository.

Answer 1

The output is written to stderr, not to stdout. So you have to add 2>&1 to the command line.