From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:46:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] sideband: remove line padding (was: Re: [PATCH] progress: use \r as EOL only if isatty(stderr) is true)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1106302331050.1371@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20110630211329.GC63317@sherwood.local>

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote:

> @ Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote (2011-06-29 20:15+0200):
> > Why?
> 
> Ok, they don't.  (Your initial patch was from 2008, and since
> git(1) is evolving very fast, it might have been that padding is
> no longer of any use at all.)

But they absolutely still are.  What makes you think they aren't 
anymore?

> So, then, i'm the right person to turn the big wheel:

I'm afraid you'll have to understand _why_ that padding is still needed 
first.  Luckily the various commit messages for sideband.c are well 
detailed on the reasons for the current code.


Nicolas