[PATCH v2] progress: check stderr.isatty() before each print

[Augie Fackler]

On Jun 28, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 22:26 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com>
>> # Date 1277695247 18000
>> # Branch stable
>> # Node ID eefb5d1f2c45e686ac501ccba0b24f5da968e920
>> # Parent  51021f4c80b5dcf608626ddc24b21c155df2cae8
>> progress: check stderr.isatty() before each print
> 
> Ok, queued. We should try to fix this better somehow post-1.6.

Totally agree. In fact, this could be improved slightly to only check isatty() right before each print, once every 10th of a second instead of every progress call. Should I resend that way? (That occurred to me this afternoon while idly wondering what a better fix looks like.)

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