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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] git-clone.txt: reword description of progress behaviour
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:12:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261761126-5784-3-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261761126-5784-2-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>

Mention progress reporting behaviour in the descriptions for -q/
--quiet and -v/--verbose options, in the style of git-pack-objects.txt.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-clone.txt |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index f298fdd..e722e6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -96,13 +96,16 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 
 --quiet::
 -q::
-	Operate quietly.  This flag is also passed to the `rsync'
+	Operate quietly.  Progress is not reported to the standard
+	error stream. This flag is also passed to the `rsync'
 	command when given.
 
 --verbose::
 -v::
-	Display the progress bar, even in case the standard error is not
-	a terminal.
+	Progress status is reported on the standard error stream
+	by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q
+	is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the
+	standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.
 
 --no-checkout::
 -n::
-- 
1.6.6.278.g3f5f

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-25 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09  4:54 [PATCH/RFC] Add progress options Brent Goodrick
2009-12-25 17:12 ` [PATCH 0/4] clone: use --progress to mean -v Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-25 17:12   ` [PATCH 1/4] check stderr with isatty() instead of stdout when deciding to show progress Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-25 17:12     ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2009-12-25 17:12       ` [PATCH 3/4] clone: set transport->verbose when -v/--verbose is used Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-25 17:12         ` [PATCH 4/4] clone: use --progress to force progress reporting Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-27  1:20           ` Miklos Vajna
2009-12-27  3:22             ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-26  8:53   ` [PATCH 0/4] clone: use --progress to mean -v Johannes Schindelin
2009-12-27  3:27     ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-29  1:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-29  3:06         ` Tay Ray Chuan

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