Re: Git pull confusing output

2018-11-28 Thread Stefan Beller
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:31 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Will writes: > > > I’m far from being a guru, but I consider myself a competent Git > > user. Yet, here’s my understanding of the output of one the most-used > > commands, `git push`: > >> Counting objects: 6, done. > > No idea what an “o

Re: Git pull confusing output

2018-11-27 Thread Junio C Hamano
Will writes: > I’m far from being a guru, but I consider myself a competent Git > user. Yet, here’s my understanding of the output of one the most-used > commands, `git push`: >> Counting objects: 6, done. > No idea what an “object” is. Apparently there’s 6 of them > here. What does “counting” th

Re: Git pull confusing output

2018-11-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Nov 27 2018, Will wrote: > On 27 Nov 2018, at 19:24, Stefan Beller wrote: > >> The different phases taking each one line takes up precious >> screen real estate, so another approach would be delete the line >> after one phase is finished, such that you'd only see the currently >> active

Re: Git pull confusing output

2018-11-27 Thread Will
On 27 Nov 2018, at 19:24, Stefan Beller wrote: > The different phases taking each one line takes up precious > screen real estate, so another approach would be delete the line > after one phase is finished, such that you'd only see the currently > active phase (that can be useful for debugging

Re: Git pull confusing output

2018-11-27 Thread Stefan Beller
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 8:52 AM Will wrote: > And even them, do they need this info every time they push? I agree that we should make the output a bit more user friendly, which means we'd only want to output relevant data for the user. The different phases taking each one line takes up precious

Git pull confusing output

2018-11-27 Thread Will
I’m far from being a guru, but I consider myself a competent Git user. Yet, here’s my understanding of the output of one the most-used commands, `git push`: Counting objects: 6, done. No idea what an “object” is. Apparently there’s 6 of them here. What does “counting” them means? Should I care?