From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:48:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone: use cpio's --quiet flag
Message-ID: <7vwswbgphu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070804160409.GA16326@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> > $ git-clone foo bar
>> > Initialized empty Git repository in ...
>> > 0 blocks
>> 
>> According to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xcu/cpio.html, 
>> cpio does not know about --quiet.  I think this is another GNUism...
>
> Ugh, I didn't even think to check the spec, thanks for looking (I should
> have been tipped off by the presence only of a long option).
>
> I'm not sure what the best solution is...adding --quiet makes it totally
> unportable, but that message almost looks like an error. We can redirect
> stderr, but then we potentially miss real errors.

I was hoping that we can say that the output is analogous to the
native transport reporting "Conting objects: XXXX" and stuff...