Re: [PATCH 2/2] fetch: silence git-gc if --quiet is given

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 06:51:05PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> Noticed-by: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/fetch.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
> index 9394194..4ff4080 100644
> --- a/builtin/fetch.c
> +++ b/builtin/fetch.c
> @@ -1197,6 +1197,8 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  	string_list_clear(&list, 0);
>  
>  	argv_array_pushl(&argv_gc_auto, "gc", "--auto", NULL);
> +	if (verbosity < 0)
> +		argv_array_push(&argv_gc_auto,"--quiet");
>  	run_command_v_opt(argv_gc_auto.argv, RUN_GIT_CMD);

I think this is a fine fix for this specific problem, and we should
apply it. But I do wonder if it would be simpler in the long run to
treat verbosity as a global option, and pass it around via a GIT_QUIET
(or GIT_VERBOSITY) environment variable.

I would not be surprised at all to find that there are other cases where
sub-programs do not respect the parent verbosity (I know we have had
problems with progress reporting flags carried over the transport
interface in the past, but I think we fixed all of those).

-Peff