Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Shouldn't this option be named "--plumbing" since it's making 'git push'
> act like plumbing? Actually, neither name seems intuitively descriptive
> to me...
Perhaps. But asking for output format designed for Porcelain
implementions to read with --porcelain option has precedence.
> Why not teach 'git push' to change its output format if it's writing to a pipe?
That is ugly. Besides, "writing to a pipe" would not be a right criteria,
if you want to do
git push >log
if grep blah log
then
do blah thing
fi
if grep baa log
then
do baa thing, too
fi
When you make a program behave differently depending on where your stdout
goes, typically you see if it is going to the terminal (e.g. isatty(3)),
but even then you would need an explicit override from the command line
when stdout is a tty and you do not want "for humans" frills (e.g. color),
and when stdout is not a tty and you do want such frills.
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