Re: [PATCH 7/9] fetch: fetch submodules in parallel
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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- Aug 28, 2015, 17:01 UTC
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Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
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>> This makes use of the new task queue and the syncing feature of >> run-command to fetch a number of submodules at the same time. >> >> The output will look like it would have been run sequential, >> but faster. > > And it breaks the tests t5526-fetch-submodules.sh as the output is done > on stderr only, instead of putting "Fetching submodule <submodule-path> > to stdout. :( > > I guess combining stdout and stderr is not a good strategy after all now.
IMHO the "Fetching submodule <submodule-path>" output always should have gone to stderr. It is not output that scripts would be relying on --- it is just progress output.
So a preliminary patch doing that (and updating tests) would make sense to me.
Thoughts? Jonathan