git webrev is extremely silent

[Kevin Rushforth]

I agree. A "--quiet" option could be added for cases where you want it 
to be silent.

-- Kevin


On 3/24/2020 5:51 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2020-03-24 13:42, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> Any thoughts?
> I agree, we need not follow the user-unfriendly unix-style of "no 
> output means success". Perhaps just a confirmation message like 
> "Webrev generated in <dir>" would be nice.
>
> /Magnus
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
>> On 19/03/20 8:26 am, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>>> I have just started using the skara CLI tools to generate patches for
>>> the jdk repositories. I am used to using the (original) webrev. When
>>> using the original webrev, you see a bunch of "activity" that gets
>>> logged on the screen and it finally writes out the patch where the
>>> webrev changeset is generated.
>>>
>>> However, when I run the "git webrev" command (sometimes with additional
>>> options), it just silently returns. The first few times I tried it, I
>>> thought it wasn't really working. It's only when I looked for directory
>>> listing of potential places, where it might have generated the webrevs,
>>> did I realize that the webrev was being generated successfully and it's
>>> just that the git webrev command it way too silent and doesn't generate
>>> any messages.
>>>
>>> Adding a final summary, after the command executes successfully,
>>> including the location where the webrev was generated would help, IMO.
>>> Would this be considered a reasonable enhancement?
>>>
>>> -Jaikiran
>>>
>>>
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