brz 0.8.2 - Disable progress bar and enable it only on -v option

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jari Aalto+mail.emacs wrote:
> * Wed 2006-06-14 Stefan Reichör <stefan AT xsteve.at>
> * Message-Id: m0irn49now.fsf AT ger-fae.com
>> jari.aalto at cante.net (Jari Aalto+usenet) writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose that the new progress bar added would be disabled
>>> by default. 
>>>
>>> 1. Through remote modem connection the extra characters displayed in
>>>    rapid succession for many files drains up the bandwidth.
>>>
>>> 2. In local machine the screen flickers constantly on adds.
>>>    The operations are so fast, so the value of progress bar
>>>    go unnoticed (the flickering is a bit disturbing).
>>>
>>> It's good that most of the commands do not return no output at
>>> all in default state, which is good for slow connections.
>> I have also noticed the flickering when using the command line
>> client.
>>
>> A related problem is, that committing via DVC.el shows the progress
>> bar as garbage in the bzr output buffer.
>>
>> So it would be really nice to have a way to switch that progress bar
>> off.
>>
>> The following ideas could be implemented:
>> * a --no-progressbar command line switch
>> * a --show-progressbar command line switch
>> * a setting in a configuration file (not sure which one and how many
>>   aspects should be configurable)
> 
> Bette is concept: "be conservative". Options should be turned on to
> increase things, so I vote:
> 
>   --show-progressbar
> 
> This should also be possible to set in bzr configuration file.
> 
> Jari
> 

Well, bzr the command line client should chose reasonable options for a
command line/user interactive process.
But as a back-end you would want different options.
It has been discussed many times about possibly having a separate
program to handle the scripting desires. Or possibly an env variable or
flag. I think we have the '-q' flag, but it might be too much.

John
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