On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:50:50AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >> > 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. ;-) > > Yeah, that will work for those tools, but I thought you could pass > arbitrary shell commands. It would be nice if git sub-commands run > through those just magically worked, even though we don't have an > opportunity to change their command-line parameters. Technically speaking this discusses the patch for fetch only and we'd want to have that discussion at the previous patch. ;) But as both of them use the same code, the sync feature of run-command, which is in patch 5/9, we want to have git commands just work anyway. > > -Peff -- 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