Show standard error for failing CWL jobs that capture standard error - #5555
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This fixes #2994 by logging standard error from CWL tasks to the Toil log, when the tasks fail, even if standard error for the task is being captured to a file.
(When standard error is not captured, we already log it to the Toil log.)
The result looks just like if it wasn't being captured:
We don't do this when the job succeeds, because the user might be capturing the log because it's inconveniently large.
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issues/XXXX-fix-the-thingin the Toil repo, or from an external repo.camelCasethat want to be insnake_case.docs/running/{cliOptions,cwl,wdl}.rstMerger Checklist