From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:41:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pass transport verbosity down to git_connect
Message-ID: <20160129174144.GA22600@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlh78jnmk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 09:34:27AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Yeah, after re-reading the messages in this thread, I realize that I
> missed the fact that you do consider these CONNECT_VERBOSE messages
> as debugging aid and from that point of view "fetch -v" that shows
> these messagse in addition to what you get from "fetch" may be a bad
> idea.
> 
> But after inspecting what CONNECT_VERBOSE would add to the output, I
> am inclined to say that, especially if some of these steps can
> exhibit multi-second stalls, they fall more into the "progress
> indicator" (aka "do not worry, we are not stuck, be patient")
> category than "debugging aid" category.

OK, I can buy that line of reasoning (and I agree it implies showing
with a single "-v").

-Peff