# remote-helpers: The lost verbosity level

2 messages from 2010-09-06 to 2010-09-06. Participants: Artur Skawina, Sverre Rabbelier.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25003

## Artur Skawina, 2010-09-06 15:24

Subject: remote-helpers: The lost verbosity level
Message-ID: <4C8507A3.5050105@gmail.com>
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Tried turning on more debugging in my new remote-helper and was surprised by this:

$ git fetch -q swarm://address blah
I= "option verbosity 0"
$ git fetch swarm://address blah
I= "option verbosity 1"
$ git fetch -v swarm://address blah
I= "option verbosity 1"
$ git fetch -vv swarm://address blah
I= "option verbosity 3"
$ git fetch -vvv swarm://address blah
I= "option verbosity 4"
# etc 

$ git --version
git version 1.7.2.1

IOW the '-v' case is undetectable. Presumably an off-by-one check somewhere,
and not part of ABI cause some existing helper depends on this behavior? ;)

artur

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## Sverre Rabbelier, 2010-09-06 20:52

Subject: Re: remote-helpers: The lost verbosity level
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In-Reply-To: <4C8507A3.5050105@gmail.com>

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Heya,

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:24, Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tried turning on more debugging in my new remote-helper and was surprised by this:

> IOW the '-v' case is undetectable. Presumably an off-by-one check somewhere,
> and not part of ABI cause some existing helper depends on this behavior? ;)

Curious. That does not seem like correct behavior, no. Can you
investigate where this goes wrong?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

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