From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: quiet shell commands when "make --silent"
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:16:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120910121651.GA26218@padd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7voblepvdv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
gitster@pobox.com wrote on Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:35 -0700:
> Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> writes:
>
> > Option "--silent", "--quiet" or "-s" to make prevents
> > echoing of commands as they are executed. However, there
> > are some explicit "echo" commands in the Makefile and in
> > the two GIT-VERSION-GEN scripts that always echo.
>
> "make -s clean"?
Fixed here.
> I am not very enthused, especially if the primary motivation is
> about "check-docs". Such a script must be prepared to filter out
> cruft from the output of $(MAKE) and to pick out the bits that
> interests it and that has been the way of life with $(MAKE) way
> before Git started as a project ;-).
My motivation was to quiet output from a script I use
to test bisectability. I sent it out because I noticed
someone else found the verbosity annoying too.
Agreed that "fixing" check-docs is not important; that's
why I didn't bother in this patch.
-- Pete
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-10 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-09 23:09 [PATCH] Makefile: quiet shell commands when "make --silent" Pete Wyckoff
2012-09-10 0:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-10 12:16 ` Pete Wyckoff [this message]
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