From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:20:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git clone -v Message-ID: <20081009152028.GA29829@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <7vr66qown3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Miklos Vajna writes: > > > The new -v option forces the progressbar, even in case the output is not > > a terminal. > > > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna > > The patch made me wonder why this new feature had to be implemented in the > first place and had me look up the message the patch was an follow-up to. > For somebody who would not recall the original request-for-feature (that > includes you 6 months from now), it would have been easier to understand > the context if the commit message said what the intended purpose of this > (i.e. "have it read by an IDE"). I'm amending the message as the following: --8<-- Implement git clone -v The new -v option forces the progressbar, even in case the output is not a terminal. This can be useful if the caller is an IDE or wrapper which wants to scrape the progressbar from stderr and show its information in a different format. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce -- -- Shawn.