Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Oct 14, 2007, 19:44 UTC
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Steven Grimm wrote:
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> Verbosity. IMO Mercurial swings too far in this direction, but in general it's > either completely silent or very terse in its output. There is never, as far > as I can see, any low-level diagnostic information spit out to the user unless > an hg command is run with a "verbose" option. Here's "hg pull; hg update", for > example (and "pull" is one of hg's chattier commands): > > pulling from ../child1 > searching for changes > adding changesets > adding manifests > adding file changes > added 8 changesets with 8 changes to 3 files (+1 heads) > (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge) > 3 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved > > Compare with the equivalent "git pull" and put yourself in the shoes of a user > who is running that command for the first time:
BTW I have patches here reworking the progress code for a more compact display which should mitigate this issue quite a bit.
Nicolas