Re: [PATCH] git-submodule: Make update verbose for up to date path

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

> When i run 'git submodule update' in a repository whose submodules are 
> all clean, there is not any output which makes me not know whether this 
> command are successful. I think this is not friendly.

The problem is: people ignore output.  Back when merge-recursive was even 
more chatty than it is now, they happily glanced over the fact that there 
were _conflicts_.

So we reduced the output.  Drastically.

For example, git reset --hard (amongst others) does not output a _thing_ 
if it succeeds.  This is good.  No output means it succeeded.

Now, some other commands take a while to complete, so we have a progress 
which kicks in after a second or so.  Still, this is just to keep the user 
busy when she would otherwise think that Git hangs.

So no, I do not like submodule becoming chattier.  You can add --verbose 
if you want, but the default should be _quiet_.

Ciao,
Dscho