From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:11:21 GMT
Subject: Re: removal of "percent done" messages from git pull
Message-ID: <tnxr6sm5m2u.fsf@arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <45D5E06B.6020706@lightspeed.com>

Larry Streepy <larry@lightspeed.com> wrote:
> I run a nightly script to build and test our product.  I capture all
> the output and email it to interested parties.  One very annoying
> thing is the "percent done" messages that come out of git pull.  It
> results in log files that look like this:
[...]
> I have found no way to make these messages go away.  When running in a
> "batch" mode, IMHO, interactive messages like these should not be
> emitted. At least there should be a switch to suppress them.

Or (as done in StGIT for some messages), only print those interactive
messages when stdout is a tty, i.e. "if (isatty(1))".

-- 
Catalin