From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:36:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] progress: use \r as EOL only if isatty(stderr) is true
Message-ID: <7vtyb8s4kv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110628224516.GB4192@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm willing to accept that there are use cases where you don't want the
> CRs, but just want a list of lines[1]. But it seems like this change
> hurts some existing use cases.
>
> -Peff
>
> [1] Actually, I would be curious to see such a use case. If you are
> planning on saving the output, is it really useful to have a hundred
> lines saying:
>
>   Compressing objects 1% (100/10000)
>   Compressing objects 2% (200/10000)
>
> and so forth?

All valid arguments against the change, I think.  Thanks.