Re: Git sideband hook output

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2010, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikQQh4sUA7h2k1jvQ7aMgYyq7WFetJvJZvqpVxt@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100610183019.GR14847@spearce.org>

Hey,

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> If its really a problem, maybe "remote: " prefix should turn into
> something shorter and language agnostic, like "<< ".  But thus far
> we hadn't had to worry about it, since we didn't have translation
> support in Git...  (though yes, I see that is changing now).
>

I would heavily be in favor of a change to '>>' or '<<'. A lot of services use the hook output to add useful info after or during a push and the 'remote:' string is distracting for the user. +1 to '>>'. Or perhaps be configurable, but default to '>>'.

Scott