Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> With --progress option, the command shows a fairly useless but >> amusing eye-candy while making the user wait. > > Looks nice :) It makes it much more comfortable to wait for the real > output. Perhaps there should be a config option to enable the > eye-candy when git-blame is run on a terminal (e.g. (configoption && > stdout is a tty && stderr is a tty) || --progress)? Typing --progress > is annoying. > > I also noticed that git-blame with --progress is slowed down a bit by > the terminal here; the output on stderr was ~400kb. Easy, that was not a serious patch meant for inclusion. If somebody wants to polish it up and re-submit that is fine by me. It might be interesting to add colors, make it less dependent on ANSI terminal control, and handle half-dots more intelligently. - 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