From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:09:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fetch: silence git-gc if --quiet is given
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CuiAYGA-Tkr1p+KVm=hvpKYwooJMc9-z-pR4nOBDaTug@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140814195615.GB19337@peff.net>

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I think this is a fine fix for this specific problem, and we should
> apply it. But I do wonder if it would be simpler in the long run to
> treat verbosity as a global option, and pass it around via a GIT_QUIET
> (or GIT_VERBOSITY) environment variable.
>
> I would not be surprised at all to find that there are other cases where
> sub-programs do not respect the parent verbosity (I know we have had
> problems with progress reporting flags carried over the transport
> interface in the past, but I think we fixed all of those).

I don't see any easy way to make everybody aware of $GIT_QUIET. But
the idea is nice.
-- 
Duy