Re: Bug: version 2.4 seems to have broken `git clone --progress`

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 11, 2015, 21:06 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8ucu3jug.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+6di1=Qvp3oaw0moMg8XMFd5vgc0v1L0CC2ppEDOF8QA9N6Mg@mail.gmail.com>

"Jack O'Connor" <oconnor663@gmail.com> writes:

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> In git 2.3.7 I could run the following command and see progress in the
> terminal, despite the redirection of stdout and stderr:
>
>     git clone https://github.com/oconnor663/dotfiles --progress 2>&1 | cat
>
> As of 2.4, that command no longer shows progress. When I bisect, the
> responsible commit is 2879bc3b0c3acc89f0415ac0d0e3946599d9fc88
> ("transport-helper: ask the helper to set progress and verbosity
> options after asking for its capabilities"). Can anyone suggest a
> workaround?
>
> -- Jack O'Connor

That commit is by Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> so I'd imagine that CC'ing the author of the patch would be the first thing to do ;-)

I am kind of surprised that the commit changes behaviour, though. If I didn't hear that you had trouble in 2.4, I would have suspected 85cb8906 (progress: no progress in background, 2015-04-13) instead.