Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The new -v option forces the progressbar, even in case the output is not > > a terminal. > > > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The patch made me wonder why this new feature had to be implemented in the > first place and had me look up the message the patch was an follow-up to. > For somebody who would not recall the original request-for-feature (that > includes you 6 months from now), it would have been easier to understand > the context if the commit message said what the intended purpose of this > (i.e. "have it read by an IDE"). I'm amending the message as the following: --8<-- Implement git clone -v The new -v option forces the progressbar, even in case the output is not a terminal. This can be useful if the caller is an IDE or wrapper which wants to scrape the progressbar from stderr and show its information in a different format. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- -- Shawn. -- 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