Re: git-clone --quiet broken?

Junio C Hamano, Sun, Jul 06, 2008 02:56:17 +0200:

Dave Jones [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The server I run various git snapshots on recently got upgraded to git 1.5.6,
...
I could run the clone with 2>/dev/null, but I'd really like to get
mail when something breaks instead of it being totally silent.

I'm assuming this was an unintentional side-effect of some other recent change?

Yeah, I would assume so, too ;-)

Daniel, is this enough?  From re-reading the scripted version of
git-clone, it appears that we *might* need to squelch no-progress if the
stdout is not tty;  I do not offhand if you got that right when you
rewrote this in C.

While at it, could we please have the first "Initialize" message
removed?

    Initialize git/.git
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/davej/git-trees/git/.git/

The default output looks redundant (that of init_db too, but the full
path can be useful sometimes). Something like this, perhaps:

diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index 643c7d4..4a0f1ab 100644
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c

@@ -421,7 +421,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		die("could not create leading directories of '%s'", git_dir);
 	set_git_dir(make_absolute_path(git_dir));
 
-	fprintf(stderr, "Initialize %s\n", git_dir);
 	init_db(option_template, option_quiet ? INIT_DB_QUIET : 0);
 
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