On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
It is a long-standing tradition that real computer users don't need warm fuzzy encouraging status messages. Programs that work just do so silently, saving their breath to complain if something went wrong.
Which, as far as I can tell, is completely untrue. If something doesn't print out anything, they wonder if it's broken or if something went wrong. Linus just recently changed the status threshold on git to be even shorter. The old behavior was the if something was taking longer than 2 seconds, it would then start printing out progress. That's now 1 second. Of course, git is divided up nicely between the plumbing programs, which are usually called by other scripts, and the porcelain which are not. Even then, the porcelains usually have --quiet options. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
