From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: git-clone --quiet broken? Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:16:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20080705211616.GA3874@codemonkey.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 05 23:11:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KFF2H-0004qk-Up for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:11:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752902AbYGEVKK (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752797AbYGEVKK (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:10:10 -0400 Received: from testure.choralone.org ([194.9.77.134]:35167 "EHLO testure.choralone.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752409AbYGEVKJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:10:09 -0400 Received: from davej by testure.choralone.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KFF7A-0001IS-LA for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:16:16 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The server I run various git snapshots on recently got upgraded to git 1.5.6, and I started getting a lot more mail from cron than usual. It seems that passing -q to git-clone at some point changed from 'silent' to 'slightly less noisy'. Only the difference is so slight that it may as well be nil.. Here's a normal clone.. Initialize git/.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/davej/git-trees/git/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 76925, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25373/25373), done. remote: Total 76925 (delta 55699), reused 70336 (delta 50160) Receiving objects: 100% (76925/76925), 17.09 MiB | 1111 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (55699/55699), done. And here's the 'quiet' clone.. Initialize git/.git remote: Counting objects: 76925, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (25373/25373), done. remote: Total 76925 (delta 55699), reused 70336 (delta 50160) Receiving objects: 100% (76925/76925), 17.09 MiB | 1128 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (55699/55699), done. Spot the difference :) It looks even worse in mail from cron, where you get one line of text for every % that git progresses through. I could run the clone with 2>/dev/null, but I'd really like to get mail when something breaks instead of it being totally silent. I'm assuming this was an unintentional side-effect of some other recent change? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk