Re: [PATCH] git-clone: use cpio's --quiet flag

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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$ git-clone foo bar
Initialized empty Git repository in ...
0 blocks

According to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xcu/cpio.html, 
cpio does not know about --quiet.  I think this is another GNUism...

Ugh, I didn't even think to check the spec, thanks for looking (I should
have been tipped off by the presence only of a long option).

I'm not sure what the best solution is...adding --quiet makes it totally
unportable, but that message almost looks like an error. We can redirect
stderr, but then we potentially miss real errors.

I was hoping that we can say that the output is analogous to the
native transport reporting "Conting objects: XXXX" and stuff...

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:48:29AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I was hoping that we can say that the output is analogous to the
native transport reporting "Conting objects: XXXX" and stuff...

It always says "0 blocks" for me, which looks a bit like an error (but
the clone seems to work fine).

-Peff