From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:53:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] fetch: fetch submodules in parallel
Message-ID: <20150828185330.GA18041@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150828185050.GF8165@google.com>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:50:50AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> > But what I meant was: the child will only show progress if stderr is a
> > tty, but here it is not.
> 
> For clone / fetch, we can pass --progress explicitly.
> 
> For some reason 'git checkout' doesn't support a --progress option.  I
> suppose it should. ;-)

Yeah, that will work for those tools, but I thought you could pass
arbitrary shell commands.  It would be nice if git sub-commands run
through those just magically worked, even though we don't have an
opportunity to change their command-line parameters.

-Peff