From: Miles Bader Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:33:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] progress: use \r as EOL only if isatty(stderr) is true Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vtyb8s4kv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > All valid arguments against the change, I think. Thanks. Yeah, I think better to leave it alone. I sometimes pipe the output of such progress-meter-using programs through a filter that both sends the output to the terminal (where the \rs are clearly desired) and logs it to a file -- and the \rs are even useful for the latter purpose, and the filter can use them to delete all but the last copy of each line before logging. -Miles -- My books focus on timeless truths. -- Donald Knuth