Re: [PATCH] git-update-index: report(...) now flushes stdout after printing the report line

[Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> from your above message solely and setting aside your original patch,
>> I presume that you want to introduce the ability to force progress
>> reporting even if stderr isn't a terminal.
>>
>> I am working a feature (display progress for http operations) that
>> happens to add this ability to git-push and git-fetch, by specifying
>> the --progress option.
>>
>> Regarding git-pull - I guess it's only git-fetch (being
>> transport-related) that reports progress?
>
> Are you talking about this topic?
>
>  * tc/clone-v-progress (2009-12-26) 4 commits
>  - clone: use --progress to force progress reporting
>  - clone: set transport->verbose when -v/--verbose is used
>  - git-clone.txt: reword description of progress behaviour
>  - check stderr with isatty() instead of stdout when deciding to show progress

no, I'm not referring to that - the topic I mentioned is still off-list.

> What do people think about it?  I vaguely recall that somebody asked to
> add a warning to release notes on the behaviour change to this series, and
> I think it may be a worthwhile thing to do (e.g. "Earlier we did X but now
> we do Y; change things in this way if you want us to keep doing X"), but
> otherwise I think it is a sensible change.

Yes, that request was from Dscho, and Miklos said something to that
effect as well. Could you advise how one could go about adding such a
warning, as I'm not sure about the release schedule details.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan