From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:35:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] diff: turn on rename detection progress reporting
Message-ID: <4D8C53DA.1010300@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110324175124.GD30685@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 3/24/2011 18:51, schrieb Jeff King:
> Since all of the progress happens before we generate any
> output, this looks OK, even when output goes to a pager.
> We do the usual --progress/--no-progress options and check
> isatty(2) to enable the feature.

Why does it look good? Because the pager is not spawned, yet? Then this is
not so good because on Windows we don't have a facility to wait until
there is output, and for this reason we spawn the pager immediately.

-- Hannes