From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:50:43 GMT
Subject: Re: how to suppress progress percentage in git-push
Message-ID: <20091123155043.GA28963@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20091123145959.GA13138@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:00:00AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> The patch for (1) would look something like what's below.  It's simpler,
> but it does change the semantics; anyone who was relying on
> --all-progress to turn on progress unconditionally would need to now
> also use --progress. However, turning on progress unconditionally is
> usually an error (the except is if you are piping output in real-time to
> the user and need to overcome the isatty check).

I'm actually doing exactly that in the mirrorproj.cgi of Girocco, so I
would be unhappy if I would have to go through creating ptys or whatever
now. Maybe conditioning this by an environment variable?

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis