Re: Command-line verbosity

Bruce Korb <bkorb@sco.COM> writes:
> 1. have an event dispatch routine for all user notifications.
> 2. If the event display level allows a lot of noise, then record
> "important" events in a temporary file.
> 3. When the command completes, if the temp file is not empty,
> display the contents
> 4. unlink the temp file.

(Wow, now *that's* implementation-specific! :-). )

It loses the property of seeing what's happening as you go, though --
Subversion would hang for a moment, then spit out a lot of information
at once. If that were to be its behavior, I'd almost prefer silence.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:12 2006