From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden@googlemail.com>,
Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden@gmail.com>,
Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: be quiet if not on isatty()
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:28:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110828062848.GA22182@albatross.gern.madduck.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vaaau9hso.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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also sprach Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [2011.08.28.0822 +0200]:
> In general, the progress output should not be given unless the
> output is sent to a tty (i.e. an interactive session).
Just as a note — around Unix, it's generally "output should not be
given unless there was an unexpected condition, or --verbose was
passed. If a tool did successfully what it was asked to do, it
should just be quiet about it."
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-28 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-28 14:40 [PATCH] progress: use \r as EOL only if isatty(stderr) is true Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
[not found] ` <BANLkTinRe=pA=_obCmPKBjJMXH_pDfwCtw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-28 16:51 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-06-28 18:04 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-06-28 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-28 18:48 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-06-28 18:55 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-06-28 22:45 ` Jeff King
2011-06-29 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-30 4:33 ` Miles Bader
2011-06-29 17:42 ` [PATCH/RFC] sideband: remove line padding (was: Re: [PATCH] progress: use \r as EOL only if isatty(stderr) is true) Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-06-29 18:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-30 21:13 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-07-01 3:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-08-27 19:45 ` [PATCH] checkout: be quiet if not on isatty() Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-08-27 19:45 ` Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-08-28 6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-28 6:28 ` martin f krafft [this message]
2011-08-28 17:37 ` [PATCH] checkout: add --verbose, and restrict progress reporting (was: Re: [PATCH] checkout: be quiet if not on isatty()) Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
2011-08-29 20:14 ` [PATCH 0/2 RFC] Add update_progress(), divert checkout messages sdaoden
2011-08-29 20:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] progress: add update_progress() sdaoden
2011-08-29 20:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] unpack-trees: divert check_updates() output via update_progress() sdaoden
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