Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: make the ssh connection quiet

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Oct 27, 2010, 15:24 UTC
Message-ID: <1288193069.15518.40.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1288189628-4883-1-git-send-email-jstepien@users.sourceforge.net>

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:27 +0200, Jan Stępień wrote:

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> The --quiet option passed to fetch-pack did not affect the ssh child
> process. When an ssh server sent a motd it was displayed because the ssh
> client wasn't launched with the -q option. This patch makes ssh run quietly
> when fetch-pack is called with -q.
> 
> An analogous change should be made to other commands which accept --quiet
> and connect to remotes using ssh.

I'm not so sure that's a good idea. Quoting from the (Open)SSH man page:

-q      Quiet mode.  Causes all warning and diagnostic messages to be suppressed.

Somehow I doubt that's what you intended or a good idea.

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-Drew Northup N1XIM
   AKA RvnPhnx on OPN
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