gitster@xxxxxxxxx wrote on Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:35 -0700: > Pete Wyckoff <pw@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Option "--silent", "--quiet" or "-s" to make prevents > > echoing of commands as they are executed. However, there > > are some explicit "echo" commands in the Makefile and in > > the two GIT-VERSION-GEN scripts that always echo. > > "make -s clean"? Fixed here. > I am not very enthused, especially if the primary motivation is > about "check-docs". Such a script must be prepared to filter out > cruft from the output of $(MAKE) and to pick out the bits that > interests it and that has been the way of life with $(MAKE) way > before Git started as a project ;-). My motivation was to quiet output from a script I use to test bisectability. I sent it out because I noticed someone else found the verbosity annoying too. Agreed that "fixing" check-docs is not important; that's why I didn't bother in this patch. -- Pete -- 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