On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think it is a very good idea to squelch progress output that will never > go to the client (it will be wasted traffic, regardless of the "syslog" > thing), but > > (1) Is "not using sideband" the same as "client won't see the progress > output" for all vintages of clients that work with the current > server? > > How did we drive upload-pack over native or ssh connection before we > introduced sideband? I vaguely recall that we relied on stderr going > to the invoking terminal in the local case. With this change, does > the user suddenly stop seeing progress if the client is older than > 583b7ea (upload-pack/fetch-pack: support side-band communication, > 2006-06-21)? If so, that would be a regression. Native, or git:// style, certainly never was able to get any kind of progress display without sideband support. As to old clients using ssh... well... that could be a regression. But do we really care? This is pre v1.4.1 after all, and even the previous Debian stable was using a later git version. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html