From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:39:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix argument handling for fetch-pack call when stdout is connected and -q/--quiet is supplied.
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0810031636010.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <85647ef50810031333m254036bav81d6dd4a58fb56da@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Constantine Plotnikov wrote:

> I think such patch would be too harsh for IDE plugin developers. When
> git is run from IDE, the isatty(1) will be true. But progress
> information will be still useful, to display an operation progress to
> user. Please provide a way to force output of progress (for example
> using environment).

Probably progress.h ought to have something for whether progress bars make 
sense, that uses isatty(1) with an environment variable override. 
Conceptually, transport.c should be figuring out whether the verbosity of 
the operation suggests progress bars, and should pass off to something 
else the determination of whether we can actually output progress bars in 
particular.

	-Daniel
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