Make "git fetch" less verbose by default

When doing something like

	git fetch --tags origin

the excessively verbose output of git fetch makes the result totally
unreadable. It's impossible to tell if it actually fetched anything new or
not, since the screen will fill up with an endless supply of

   ...
   * committish: 9165ec17fd
     tag 'v0.99.7c' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git
   * refs/tags/v0.99.7c: same as tag 'v0.99.7c' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git
   ...

and any new tags that got fetched will be totally hidden.

So add a new "--verbose" flag to "git fetch" to enable this verbose mode,
but make the default be quiet.

NOTE! The quiet mode will still report about new or changed heads, so if
you are really fetching a new head, you'll see something like this:

   [torvalds@g5 git]$ git fetch --tags parent
   Packing 6 objects
   Unpacking 6 objects
    100% (6/6) done
   * refs/tags/v1.0rc2: storing tag 'v1.0rc2' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git
   * refs/tags/v1.0rc3: storing tag 'v1.0rc3' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git
   * refs/tags/v1.0rc1: storing tag 'v1.0rc1' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git

which actually tells you something useful that isn't hidden by all the
useless crud that you already had.

Extensively tested (hey, for me, this _is_ extensive) by doing a

   rm .git/refs/tags/v1.0rc*

and re-fetching with both --verbose and without.

NOTE! This means that if the fetch didn't actually fetch anything at all,
git fetch will be totally quiet. I think that's much better than being so
verbose that you can't even tell whether something was fetched or not, but
some people might prefer to get a "nothing to fetch" message in that case.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2005-11-18 08:31:55 -08:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 3afd169480
commit 583122cd1b

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@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ IFS="$LF"
tags=
append=
force=
verbose=
update_head_ok=
while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac
do
@ -30,6 +31,9 @@ do
--update-head-o|--update-head-ok)
update_head_ok=t
;;
-v|--verbose)
verbose=Yes
;;
*)
break
;;
@ -91,12 +95,12 @@ append_fetch_head () {
then
headc_=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$head_^0") || exit
echo "$headc_ $not_for_merge_ $note_" >>"$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD"
echo >&2 "* committish: $head_"
echo >&2 " $note_"
[ "$verbose" ] && echo >&2 "* committish: $head_"
[ "$verbose" ] && echo >&2 " $note_"
else
echo "$head_ not-for-merge $note_" >>"$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD"
echo >&2 "* non-commit: $head_"
echo >&2 " $note_"
[ "$verbose" ] && echo >&2 "* non-commit: $head_"
[ "$verbose" ] && echo >&2 " $note_"
fi
if test "$local_name_" != ""
then
@ -116,7 +120,7 @@ fast_forward_local () {
then
if now_=$(cat "$GIT_DIR/$1") && test "$now_" = "$2"
then
echo >&2 "* $1: same as $3"
[ "$verbose" ] && echo >&2 "* $1: same as $3"
else
echo >&2 "* $1: updating with $3"
fi