From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:31:50 GMT
Subject: Re: A tour of git: the basics (and notes on some unfriendly messages)
Message-ID: <9FDE609B-ABC1-45D7-AFF9-211381CAF830@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070930134937.GG22560@artemis.corp>

El 30/9/2007, a las 15:49, Pierre Habouzit escribió:

> 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