Re: [PATCH 11/22] entry.c: optionally checkout submodules

["Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

On 5/24/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/24/07, skimo@liacs.nl <skimo@liacs.nl> wrote:
> >
> > >+       args[argc++] = "checkout";
> > >+       if (state->force)
> > >+           args[argc++] = "-f";
> > >+       args[argc++] = sha1_to_hex(ce->sha1);
> > >+       args[argc] = NULL;
> >
> > You should consider passing "-v" if the superprojects read-tree
> > had it. Some submodules will be annoyingly big
>
> In 1.5.2 that -v shouldn't be necessary.  The read-tree should

It is necessary. Progress meters may not stay forever the only
thing to show when verbose. The code just stripped a part of
users command, how _can_ this be ok?!

> start a timer, and if it has not reached 50% of its processing
> within 2 seconds it starts showing progress.  Unless !istty(2),
> in which case it just sits there, chugging away at your drive.
>
> I'm actually really unhappy with our !istty(2) means disable
> progress thing.  git-gui knows how to read and show the progress
> meters, but nobody prints them anymore as 2 is a pipe.  I have the

Somebody does: just because some stupid script in the middle
did a 2>&1.

> same problem with a Java build tool that sometimes starts up an
> expensive Git operation (like a clone over SSH of a 60+ MiB project).

That said, many tools have explicit --progress switch. Maybe _this_ is
what you need, and not an override whether STDERR is on a tty.

BTW, you could have used ptys, at least on UNIX-like platforms.