Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement git clone -v

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:20:28 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Miklos Vajna <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > The new -v option forces the progressbar, even in case the output is not
> > a terminal.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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 <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <[email-masked]>
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-- 
Shawn.