From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:06:40 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git clone -v Message-ID: <7vr66qown3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1223509232-3520-1-git-send-email-vmiklos@frugalware.org> Miklos Vajna writes: > The new -v option forces the progressbar, even in case the output is not > a terminal. > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna The patch made me wonder why this new feature had to be implemented in the first place and had me look up the message the patch was an follow-up to. For somebody who would not recall the original request-for-feature (that includes you 6 months from now), it would have been easier to understand the context if the commit message said what the intended purpose of this (i.e. "have it read by an IDE").