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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:44:45 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:

> Verbosity. IMO Mercurial swings too far in this direction, but in general it's
> either completely silent or very terse in its output. There is never, as far
> as I can see, any low-level diagnostic information spit out to the user unless
> an hg command is run with a "verbose" option. Here's "hg pull; hg update", for
> example (and "pull" is one of hg's chattier commands):
> 
> pulling from ../child1
> searching for changes
> adding changesets
> adding manifests
> adding file changes
> added 8 changesets with 8 changes to 3 files (+1 heads)
> (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
> 3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> 
> Compare with the equivalent "git pull" and put yourself in the shoes of a user
> who is running that command for the first time:

BTW I have patches here reworking the progress code for a more compact 
display which should mitigate this issue quite a bit.


Nicolas