Re: [REPLACEMENT PATCH 2/2] Add "--early-output" log flag for interactive GUI use

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Nov 4, 2007, 03:06 UTC
Message-ID: <18221.14113.498416.396006@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711031103340.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds writes:

> When the full list is generated, there will be a "Final output:" string
> prepended to it, regardless of whether any early commits were shown or
> not, so that the consumer can always know the difference between early
> output and the final list.

How hard would it be to put the total number of commits on that "Final output" line? That would be useful for me.

Paul.

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