Re: [PATCH/RFC] sideband: remove line padding (was: Re: [PATCH] progress: use \r as EOL only if isatty(stderr) is true)

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote:

@ Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote (2011-06-29 20:15+0200):

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Why?

Ok, they don't.  (Your initial patch was from 2008, and since
git(1) is evolving very fast, it might have been that padding is
no longer of any use at all.)

But they absolutely still are.  What makes you think they aren't 
anymore?

So, then, i'm the right person to turn the big wheel:

I'm afraid you'll have to understand _why_ that padding is still needed 
first.  Luckily the various commit messages for sideband.c are well 
detailed on the reasons for the current code.


Nicolas