On 12/4/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2006-12-04 09:17:16 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 02/12/06, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 11/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Printing progress messages to stdout causes them to get mixed up > > > with the actual output of the program. Using stderr is much > > > better, since the user can then redirect the two components > > > separately. > > > > This patch breaks qgit. > > Since there are other tools relying on a clean stderr, I think I > would revert it and add a verbose flag and/or config option. Karl, > any thoughts on this (since you sent the patch)? I introduced this since I wanted to divert the output to a file, and the progress message had no business being written to that file. But a command line option to suppress progress messages would work just as well if that's what git does.
If you don't mind I would prefer a command line option to _enable_ progress messages, something like -v or --verbose so to keep back compatibility with current versions of tools that do not expect stderr messages. Thanks Marco - 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