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SubjectRe: 2.6.17-rc6-mm2
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Actually, the really irritating thing is that we actually generate all
> these nice status updates, which just makes pulling and cloning a lot more
> comfortable, because you actually see what is going on, and what to
> expect.
>
> Except they only work over ssh, where we have a separate channel (for
> stderr), and with the native git protocol all that nice status work just
> gets flushed to /dev/null :(
>
> Dang. It's literally the most irritating part of the thing: the protocol
> itself is exactly the same whether you go over ssh:// or over git://, but
> that visual information about what is going on is missing, and it's
> surprisingly important from a usability standpoint.
>

Perhaps we shouldn't rely on stderr, and instead have a backchannel as part of the
protocol itself. After all, the protocol already does packetization, so all it needs is a
reliable way to pick out the error/status packets; we could even combine that with a
machine-readable code (like SMTP et al) that could get interpreted by the other side as
needed.

-hpa
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