From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:02:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] fetch: fetch submodules in parallel
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYkJno-VCLbt_L6neMpJqdYRiXtMF7VUjh5OJxTi4Jiqg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150828185330.GA18041@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:50:50AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> > But what I meant was: the child will only show progress if stderr is a
>> > tty, but here it is not.
>>
>> For clone / fetch, we can pass --progress explicitly.
>>
>> For some reason 'git checkout' doesn't support a --progress option.  I
>> suppose it should. ;-)
>
> Yeah, that will work for those tools, but I thought you could pass
> arbitrary shell commands.  It would be nice if git sub-commands run
> through those just magically worked, even though we don't have an
> opportunity to change their command-line parameters.

Technically speaking this discusses the patch for fetch only and we'd
want to have that discussion at the previous patch. ;)
But as both of them use the same code, the sync feature of run-command,
which is in patch 5/9, we want to have git commands just work anyway.

>
> -Peff