From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:16:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] connect: display connection progress Message-ID: <81b0412b0705100716t680290a3qd1d10cf588a65f5a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070510134622.GN13655@mellanox.co.il> On 5/10/07, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > >Why not only on failure? IP addresses look ugly. > > > > So you can see DNS problems you wanted to uncover. > > I really just wanted git to tell me what it's doing, > so that I know it's not actually blocked on network, > not doing any work. Aren't you interested in _what_ work is it doing? > > DNS is all about mapping names to that ugly IP. > > Yes, but so far git port does not seem to be commonly open > on random IPs ;). Well, it does. It happened. > > And DNS _problems_ often manifest themselves > > by mapping the name to an unexpected IP. > > Now that's really ugly > > So, let's print the IP if -v is set? > Oh, look, now we'll have > NET_QUIET > NET_VERBOSE No. All you have is QUIET and !QUIET (or VERBOSE and !VERBOSE which is the same). > > How about cleaning up this (reduce the amount of date > > on screen) > > Isn't this why we have -q? Only fetch-pack has -q (and -v, which is confusing to say the least).