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Does anybody really care about the progress meters? Those useless numbers! You can try to tell me you are not stuck every half second or so, but I don't want
by jxy 10y ago
Does anybody really care about the progress meters? Those useless numbers! You can try to tell me you are not stuck every half second or so, but I don't want to see all the noise. I'd rather it not print out anything by default unless I ask for it or it fails.
Why do git developers concern about the colored output? It's completely unrelated to SCM at all. I love the functionality. But it shouldn't be only for git. Can we have a separate utility that reads a diff and gloriously print out the contents, all by itself, and only that?
I really don't want to see git becomes another bloatware.
- onion2k 10y agoUse the --quiet flag to turn off most output and don't bother defining any colors if you don't like them. Now git is how you like it. For diffs, try git difftool.
- addicted 10y ago1) The progress meters is important. The scenarios in which this progress meter would matter, would lead to users thinking something strange went wrong and their push did not succeed because of the lack of the progress meters. Besides that, it's a UI manifestation of a bug that would have led to pushes in certain scenarios not working. 2) As long as GIT diff exists, making it more usable should certainly be a core part of changes to GIT diff. There are many utilities you can use for GIT diffs easily enough instead of the base diff. But I like the fact that if I'm at a machine where my preferred utilities are not setup, I still have a very usable diff built into GIT.