Re: [GSOC]Show progress output

Hao Zhang wrote:
> 2009/3/27 Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> If we don't have the eye candy on by default, most people won't see
>> it, because they either won't know that it exists or won't be bothered
>> to enable it. So why add it in the first place? Hao Zhang might as
>> well spend his time on something more worthwhile in this case.
>
> Stefan, I agree with you on the default show of the progress indicator
> following by a switch to deactivate it, which I have thought oppositely in
> my sketch design . I don't know whether there is a way to avoid the impact
> on scripts. But, if there isn't any, I will prefer to consider CLI user
> first.

Please excuse the guy that just showed up with a build error butting in,
but am I missing something?

if (option value is auto or unspecified)
   if (isatty())
     progress indicator to on
   else
     progress indicator to off
else if (option value is on)
   progress indicator on
else
   progress indicator off

Won't this achieve a: many or most CLI users will see it, and b: 99.9%
of scripts will be unaffected?

(/I/ won't see it without adding the switch, but that's because 'svn'
for me is a script that re-execs the 'real' svn through a colorizing
filter :-).)

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