Re: Git sideband hook output

Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Prior to 6d525d where Shawn made the receive-pack process send hook
> output over side band #2, how did the hook output get sent to the
> client?

It was sent over stderr, which was proxied down to the client by the SSH daemon.

> On older clients (before this commit) and on older servers,
> the hook output just shows up without the 'remote:' prefix.

Because its echoed to the tty by the SSH client, without Git ever seeing it.

> After
> this commit I get the 'remote:' prefix,

Now its being parsed out of the stream by the git client, using the same code that displays the progress messages during clone/fetch.

> which is kind of annoying.

Depends on your perspective. Its nice to know that the messages came from the server, rather than from your client. :-)

> Is
> there a way to suppress this to get the old output format?

No.  Other than to have the hook not output anything at all.

-- 
Shawn.