Re: [PATCH] git-submodule: Make update verbose for up to date path

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 4, 2008, 16:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803041605450.22527@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803040803v2f93d749t6b45fc8e47e66d21@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

> When i run 'git submodule update' in a repository whose submodules are 
> all clean, there is not any output which makes me not know whether this 
> command are successful. I think this is not friendly.

The problem is: people ignore output. Back when merge-recursive was even more chatty than it is now, they happily glanced over the fact that there were _conflicts_.

So we reduced the output.  Drastically.

For example, git reset --hard (amongst others) does not output a _thing_ if it succeeds. This is good. No output means it succeeded.

Now, some other commands take a while to complete, so we have a progress which kicks in after a second or so. Still, this is just to keep the user busy when she would otherwise think that Git hangs.

So no, I do not like submodule becoming chattier. You can add --verbose if you want, but the default should be _quiet_.

Ciao, Dscho