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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <psprint@zdharma.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Very simple popen() code request, ground-shaking functionality openned by it
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 09:34:14 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <315083291.15466.1537536854535@privateemail.com> (raw)

Hello!

Git default progress indicator for clone is very unattractive, IMO. It does its job in providing all the operation details very well, but I bet most of users strongly dream about a gauge box!

Have a look at my gauge box constructed as git-stderr pipe script: https://asciinema.org/a/202401

The main point of my feature request is: git can add core.progress_pipe option, where e.g. `/usr/local/bin/mygauge' will be set (a script like the one in the asciinema), and then simply do the ground-school-known `popen("/usr/local/bin/mygauge","r+")', and write **unchanged current-progress data** to the pipe, then read from the pipe and forward to `stderr', where the progress normally lands in.

This will allow users to free their creativity and provide probably dozens of custom Git progress bars.

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Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski
Blog: http://zdharma.org

             reply	other threads:[~2018-09-21 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-21 13:34 Sebastian Gniazdowski [this message]
2018-09-21 22:24 ` Very simple popen() code request, ground-shaking functionality openned by it Jeff King
2018-09-21 23:30   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-21 23:39     ` Jeff King
2018-09-22 18:16     ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2018-09-23 13:06     ` Duy Nguyen

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