Re: [PATCH 01/10] git-fast-import.txt: fix documentation for --quiet option

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:23:03PM -0800, Elijah Newren wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> index e81117d27f..7ab97745a6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
> @@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ OPTIONS
>  	not contain the old commit).
>  
>  --quiet::
> -	Disable all non-fatal output, making fast-import silent when it
> -	is successful.  This option disables the output shown by
> -	--stats.
> +	Disable the output shown by --stats, making fast-import usually
> +	be silent when it is successful.  However, if the import stream
> +	has directives intended to show user output (e.g. `progress`
> +	directives), the corresponding messages will still be shown.

Makes sense. I think one could argue that it should disable those
messages, too, but probably the right answer is that the export side
should be told to be `--quiet` as well.

-Peff