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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] clone: use --progress to mean -v
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:27:05 +0800
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Hi,

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:
>
>> This series makes git-clone follow the "argument convention" of
>> git-pack-objects, where the option --progress is used to force repor=
ting
>> of reporting. This was previously done with -v/--verbose.
>
> No objections from my side, although you might want to advertise more=
 that
> this is a change in behavior. =A0(Meaning in the release notes)

Indeed, -v/--verbose to force reporting of progress was done sometime
last year (Thu Oct 9 2008) so there may be scripts/applications
dependent on this option.

Junio, do you have any advice on this front?

>> PS. If someone can enlighten me on the proper noun for the git
>> =A0 =A0 executable (I said "main git"), I would be very thankful.
>
> I call it the "Git wrapper", although less polite words exist, too.

I see. Thanks!

--=20
Cheers,
Ray Chuan