progress bars for commit a bit noisy in non-interactive mode

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 15:34 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:

> It looks like the recent changes to commit make it show more progress
> phases; as a consequence it writes a lot more output even when
> committing a single file change.  This is invisible when run in a
> regular terminal but looks really noisy in gvim - I get a screenful of
> output.
> 
> To make a long story short I propose we just suppress progress bars
> entirely in non-interactive mode.  When there is no one watching
> Bazaar run (eg cron), this is a clear win.  If someone is watching
> Bazaar run (eg commit under vim) they get less progress feedback, but
> what we give now is not very useful.

Under vim I'd like to keep them as they work fine :).
Under gvim I'm happy for them to go/be turned into a line-printer style
output (Only mark progress of the top level, not stage by stage).

-Rob

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