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"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:

> Make git notify the user about host resolution/connection attempts.  This
> is useful both as a progress indicator on slow links, and helps reassure the
> user there are no DNS/firewall problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
>
> ---
>
> I find the following useful.
> This currently only covers native git protocol. I expect it would
> be easy to extend this to other protocols, if there's interest.
> Opinions?

I think giving this kind of feedback makes a lot of sense, from
both the "assurance" point of view and also debuggability.

But please do this only under verbose, or squelch it if "quiet"
is asked.