Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: inform the user we are checking out

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> OK, some blaming shows that this changed in 5bd631b3 ("clone: support
> multiple levels of verbosity"), back in February 2010. Before this
> patch, one would have to specify the "quiet"-flag to clone to suppress
> progress-output, after the patch the default is progress being off.
>
> This seems like the right thing to do if we want to resurrect the
> progress-output's default-on behavior:
> ---8<---
> diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
> index 3f863a1..f48e603 100644
> --- a/builtin/clone.c
> +++ b/builtin/clone.c
> @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int checkout(void)
>  	opts.update = 1;
>  	opts.merge = 1;
>  	opts.fn = oneway_merge;
> -	opts.verbose_update = (option_verbosity > 0);
> +	opts.verbose_update = (option_verbosity >= 0);
>  	opts.src_index = &the_index;
>  	opts.dst_index = &the_index;
>
> ---8<---

Sounds sensible, as the original said "verbosely update unless we were
told to be quiet", so the normal case should be verbose_update which will
give progress only if it takes too long.

Care to roll a signed-off patch?