Re: [PATCH 7/9] fetch: fetch submodules in parallel

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:50:50AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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But what I meant was: the child will only show progress if stderr is a
tty, but here it is not.

For clone / fetch, we can pass --progress explicitly.

For some reason 'git checkout' doesn't support a --progress option.  I
suppose it should. ;-)

Yeah, that will work for those tools, but I thought you could pass
arbitrary shell commands.  It would be nice if git sub-commands run
through those just magically worked, even though we don't have an
opportunity to change their command-line parameters.

Technically speaking this discusses the patch for fetch only and we'd
want to have that discussion at the previous patch. ;)
But as both of them use the same code, the sync feature of run-command,
which is in patch 5/9, we want to have git commands just work anyway.

-Peff