Re: A tour of git: the basics (and notes on some unfriendly messages)
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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
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- Sep 30, 2007, 14:31 UTC
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El 30/9/2007, a las 15:49, Pierre Habouzit escribió:
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> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:45:34PM +0000, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: >> >> I think that most people just want to know, "Did it work or not?" >> and so >> when the commands chatter too much they go into filter mode, don't >> really >> read the output, let alone try to understand it, and just skim it. >> Ideally Git would be much less "chattery" in general when things >> work, >> and only be more verbose when things go wrong; of course, finding >> that >> balance point is where the art lies. > > That's true for git merge that is fast. But people also want to know > the command is not stuck in an infinite loop, and for that progress > bars > or little \|/- animation.
Yes, I agree. I probably should have said that they either want to know "*Did* it work?" for near-instant operations (most Git operations, hopefully), and "*Is* it working?" for long-running ones (network ops, for example) and in those cases you're right that a progress bar would be a nice enhancement.
Cheers, Wincent