Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > This behaviour has existed ever since the table-based output has been > introduced for git-fetch(1) via 165f390250 (git-fetch: more terse fetch > output, 2007-11-03) and was never explicitly documented either in the > commit message or in any of our tests. So while it may not be a bug per > se, it feels like a weird inconsistency and not like it was a concious > design decision. The change seems well-justified. I agree that it does feel strange and unintended. I was really surprised to learn that it was not a bug.