Re: About global --progress option

2015-11-04 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:47:22AM -0600, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote: > On the technical side, I think the global --progress option (and > removing the option from the builtins) would not add complexity but > the opposite because setting the flag would be done at the "main git" > level and the

Re: About global --progress option

2015-11-04 Thread Edmundo Carmona Antoranz
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Besides, I am not convinced that you are bringing in a net positive > value by allowing "git --no-progress clone". You would need to > think what to do when you get two conflicting options (e.g. should > "git --no-progress clone --progress"

Re: About global --progress option

2015-11-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
Edmundo Carmona Antoranz writes: > Which would be the correct development path? > > - Two-step process: First step, implement global --[no-]progress at > the git level and also support the option from the builtins that > laready have it. Let it live like that for some releases (so that > people h

About global --progress option

2015-11-04 Thread Edmundo Carmona Antoranz
Hi, everybody! Coming back from my patch about the --[no-]progress option for checkout (it's already in next, J), I'd like to build into the idea of the single --[no-]progress option for git as a whole. So, in order to know what/how things should be developed, let's start with a tiny survey