From: Michael J Gruber Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:02:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: quell the progress report from init and report on clone Message-ID: <1270386135.1675.1368217929@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <7vljd6l3dn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:28 -0700, "Junio C Hamano" wrote: > Michael J Gruber writes: > > > From: Junio C Hamano > > > > Currently, a local glit clone reports only initializing an empty > > git dir, which is potentially confusing. > > glit? Sorry, this glitch clomes from the clone clommand of glit. > > Instead, report that cloning is in progress and when it is done > > (unless -q) is given, and suppres the init report (unless -v > > is given). > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber > > --- > > I checked the documentation, there is really no place where the output > > of git clone is documented - no documentation or test change is necesessary. > > Thanks. > > > I made it so that -v will restore the init message. > > I wonder how that would be useful, though. The new message already says > which directory is being worked on. I didn't see a point of repeating > that and made it silent on purpose. Well, the idea is that '-v' should do at least something, and often (for other commands) shows the individual steps of an action. The steps here are init+clone. Personally, I don't really care for either option. Michael P.S.: I'm sparsely online this week. Please don't mind if my responses come in late.