Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > In general the principle ought to be not to say anything if the > command does exactly what it was told to do successfully, unless > the operation is expected to take longer than other normal > commands in the git suite, or something that is rarely used. Nodz. Just hoary Unix tradition. > Perhaps under "[user] expert" control. Nope. You'd be surprised what kind of people consider themselves "experts"... I'd prefer adding -v/--verbose flags to all commands (if nothing else, for symmetry's sake), have a '[default] --verbose' controlling this across the board (perhaps also '[default "command"] --verbose'), with '[default]' setting default switches. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - 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