Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

Petr Baudis, Sat, Feb 11, 2006 14:33:40 +0100:

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It probably should default to quiet if (!isatty(1)).

isatty(2) or something, 1 is in practice always a ref generator. Perhaps
it would be better not to clutter stderr, though; what about directly
opening /dev/tty? Does Cygwin support that?

It can't. Windows has no terminals (as in "none at all"). It has a
Console, which is a special kind of window attached to an application
and where the unbuffered stdout and stderr are magically redirected.

A test for is stdout/err is a tty can only check if the process has
the console attached, and an attempt to open it for writing will
probably just create the thing.