bzr with bzr+ssh noisy and output muddled.

[Wichmann, Mats D]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>> The normal mechanism is that things like progress bars are sent
>> to stdout, but only if stdout is a real terminal; if stdout is
>> going elsewhere, like a logfile, it's suppressed.
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> I don't favour that approach, because redirecting to a pager would
> disable progress reporting.

pager as in "less", as opposed to the device you wish you didn't
have to carry?  :)  that doesn't really make sense to me but can
always be controlled by an external option, such as honoring a
value for BZR_PROGRESS_BAR if set.