From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:08:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-submodule: Make update verbose for up to date path Message-ID: 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