On 27 Nov 2018, at 19:24, Stefan Beller wrote: > The different phases taking each one line takes up precious > screen real estate, so another approach would be delete the line > after one phase is finished, such that you'd only see the currently > active phase (that can be useful for debugging as in "The phase of > 'Writing objects' takes very long" -> slow network connection). I like this idea >>> Pushing to github.com:williamdclt/some-repo.git… done >>> 1ca9aaa..4320d30 master -> master >> >> >> I’d be more than happy to work on this (`git push` is an example >> amongst so many other), but want the mailing list’s opinion on it. Am >> I wrong in thinking that this output is not something users want, am I >> fighting windmills or maybe just being ignorant? > > I think this would be a useful patch, but it could get complicated > quickly: push uses other low level git commands to prepare the > packfile to be sent to the server, currently it only needs to pipe > through the output of the low level command (or even have the > low level command directly write to the terminal). > > The output of those low level commands should not be changed > when run on their own, I would assume. Agreed. I didn’t expect it to be so subtle, but I’ll look into it and see if that’s something within my reach.
