From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:28:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: be quiet if not on isatty()
Message-ID: <20110828062848.GA22182@albatross.gern.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vaaau9hso.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

also sprach Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [2011.08.28.0822 +0200]:
> 	In general, the progress output should not be given unless the
>         output is sent to a tty (i.e. an interactive session).

Just as a note — around Unix, it's generally "output should not be
given unless there was an unexpected condition, or --verbose was
passed. If a tool did successfully what it was asked to do, it
should just be quiet about it."

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