From: Tay Ray Chuan Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:27:05 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] clone: use --progress to mean -v Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: > >> This series makes git-clone follow the "argument convention" of >> git-pack-objects, where the option --progress is used to force reporting >> of reporting. This was previously done with -v/--verbose. > > No objections from my side, although you might want to advertise more that > this is a change in behavior.  (Meaning in the release notes) Indeed, -v/--verbose to force reporting of progress was done sometime last year (Thu Oct 9 2008) so there may be scripts/applications dependent on this option. Junio, do you have any advice on this front? >> PS. If someone can enlighten me on the proper noun for the git >>     executable (I said "main git"), I would be very thankful. > > I call it the "Git wrapper", although less polite words exist, too. I see. Thanks! -- Cheers, Ray Chuan