Re: "--quiet" for git-push does not suppress remote hook output

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 05/07/20 23:02, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> 
>> On 05/07/20 14:05, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> being a total novice in git internals, it seems like
>>> "builtin/receive-pack.c" (on the server) forwards any receive hook
>>> output with copy_to_sideband() back to git-push (on the client), even if
>>> git-push was invoked with "--quiet".
>>>
>>> And "case 2" in demultiplex_sideband() seems to print that "band" to
>>> stderr (on the client), despite "--quiet".
>>>
>>> Is this intentional? I'd prefer "git push --quiet" to suppress remote
>>> hook output (unless the remote hook fails).
> 
> I think the client has to propagate sideband 2 from the server, since it
> doesn't know whether the messages are informational or errors (and even
> with --quiet, we'd want to show errors).
> 
> There is a "quiet" protocol capability; when you run "git push --quiet"
> on the client, it tells the server to use "quiet", and then it passes
> options to index-pack, etc, to suppress progress. But that never makes
> it to hooks.
> 
>> Or else:
>>
>> would it be the job of the particular receive hooks to observe and obey
>> the "--quiet" option in the GIT_PUSH_OPTION_* environment variables?
> 
> That would work, but push options require the client to send them. We
> should probably be passing knowledge of the "quiet" capability from
> receive-pack down to the hooks, probably via an environment variable
> (but not GIT_PUSH_OPTION_*, because that already has meaning).

Thank you for explaining!
Laszlo