Re: [PATCH v3 13/17] read-tree: show progress by default

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2019, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BH0pN5noDpFH286YFHC22+SNr9ZuyJxuy=WzNPQ=cyxfg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3a677f32b6b914fcc800b619fd082da25c275422.1570478905.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:08 PM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
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> The read-tree builtin has a --verbose option that signals to show
> progress and other data while updating the index. Update this to
> be on by default when stderr is a terminal window.
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> This will help tools like 'git sparse-checkout' to automatically
> benefit from progress indicators when a user runs these commands.

This change seems fine, but in patch 2 you said:

> The use of running another process for 'git read-tree' is sub-
> optimal. This will be removed in a later change.

leaving me slightly confused about the goal/plan.