Martin, Thank you for your collaborative leadership. When I started using Unix 20 years ago (Hey! I'm still younger than *some* of you!) the first thing I remember learning is "simple tools that do one thing well." The second thing I learned was "succeed silently." I don't know if Unix community can claim these as original, but they're good principles. And like all the best principles, there are exceptions. So I would like to see an option to tell bzr to essentially "keep quiet unless there is a problem" which would be accessible by (and hopefully honored by) all bzr commands. Quiet does not have to be the default. Being available (and documented) is enough. This will make bzr script friendly. Finally, I would vote to keep the progres bar available even after transports are prefected. There will be bugs, maybe not even caused by bzr. Knowing right away what stage the failure occurred in could really speed up debugging. -M