Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] fetch: fetch submodules in parallel

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:50:50 -0700

Jeff King wrote:

> Right, clearly we can't rely on pipe buffers to be large enough here
> (though we _may_ want to rely on tempfiles if we aren't sure that the
> stdout is bounded in a reasonable way).
>
> 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. ;-)

Thanks,
Jonathan