From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:45:56 GMT Subject: Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience Message-ID: 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