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Re: git-clone --quiet broken?

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2008, 00:56 UTC
Message-ID
<7vmykvrfta.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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<20080705211616.GA3874@codemonkey.org.uk>
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes:
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> The server I run various git snapshots on recently got upgraded to git 1.5.6,
> ...
> I could run the clone with 2>/dev/null, but I'd really like to get
> mail when something breaks instead of it being totally silent.
>
> I'm assuming this was an unintentional side-effect of some other recent change?
Yeah, I would assume so, too ;-)

Daniel, is this enough? From re-reading the scripted version of git-clone, it appears that we *might* need to squelch no-progress if the stdout is not tty; I do not offhand if you got that right when you rewrote this in C.

 transport.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 3ff8519..b2f0d8a 100644
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -645,7 +645,8 @@ static int fetch_refs_via_pack(struct transport *transport,
 	args.lock_pack = 1;
 	args.use_thin_pack = data->thin;
 	args.include_tag = data->followtags;
-	args.verbose = transport->verbose > 0;
+	args.verbose = (transport->verbose > 0);
+	args.quiet = (transport->verbose < 0);
 	args.depth = data->depth;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_heads; i++)
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  4. Alex RiesenJul 6, 2008
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