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

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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

Sounds fine. isatty(2), though, since we use stderr for these messages 
(stdout is usually the data-stream).

The real improvement, independent of this client-side patch,
would be to reuse recently generated packs, but that needs
writable cache directory on the server side.

More importantly, it really wouldn't have helped that much in this 
situation. At least for me, the network is 90% of the problem, the 
pack-file generation is at most 10%. So cached packfiles really only 
matter for server-side problems (high CPU load, or lack of memory, or 
heavy disk activity).

So the problems really are very independent.

			Linus