Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 11, 2006, 17:45 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602110943170.3691@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtg2o37c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> It probably should default to quiet if (!isatty(1)).

Sounds fine. isatty(2), though, since we use stderr for these messages (stdout is usually the data-stream).

> The real improvement, independent of this client-side patch,
> would be to reuse recently generated packs, but that needs
> writable cache directory on the server side.

More importantly, it really wouldn't have helped that much in this situation. At least for me, the network is 90% of the problem, the pack-file generation is at most 10%. So cached packfiles really only matter for server-side problems (high CPU load, or lack of memory, or heavy disk activity).

So the problems really are very independent.

			Linus