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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] sideband: remove line padding (was: Re: [PATCH]
 progress: use \r as EOL only if isatty(stderr) is true)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote:

> @ Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote (2011-06-29 20:15+0200):
> > Why?
> 
> Ok, they don't.  (Your initial patch was from 2008, and since
> git(1) is evolving very fast, it might have been that padding is
> no longer of any use at all.)

But they absolutely still are.  What makes you think they aren't 
anymore?

> So, then, i'm the right person to turn the big wheel:

I'm afraid you'll have to understand _why_ that padding is still needed 
first.  Luckily the various commit messages for sideband.c are well 
detailed on the reasons for the current code.


Nicolas