On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes:
>
>> By having the `init` functionality in C, we can reference it easier
>> from other parts in the code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
>> ---
>
> How faithful a conversion is this aiming to be?  For example, one
> thing I noticed is that some messages that were originally given
> with "say" and sent to the standard output, which is emitted to the
> standard error with this rewrite.  I didn't read both patches
> carefully, so there may be other discrepancies I didn't spot.
>
> I think you would want to do this in three steps:
>
>  - A faithful rewrite from shell to C;
>
>  - s/printf/fprintf(stderr, / for some messages; and finally
>
>  - Hiding of some messages under --quiet.
>
> in the above order.

"say" respects the setting of GIT_QUIET, which is usually set when
--quiet is passed, so I think I want:

-  A faithful rewrite from shell to C including messages respecting
   --quiet, such that the "say" behavior is kept.

- s/printf/fprintf(stderr, / for some messages

and then be done with it.

Thanks,
Stefan


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