Jeff King wrote: > Right, clearly we can't rely on pipe buffers to be large enough here > (though we _may_ want to rely on tempfiles if we aren't sure that the > stdout is bounded in a reasonable way). > > But what I meant was: the child will only show progress if stderr is a > tty, but here it is not. For clone / fetch, we can pass --progress explicitly. For some reason 'git checkout' doesn't support a --progress option. I suppose it should. ;-) Thanks, Jonathan -- 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