[PATCH] Display a oneline description while initialising a repo with hg init

[Martin Geisler]

Azhagu Selvan SP <tamizhgeek at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 07:50 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 15:28 +0530, Azhagu Selvan SP wrote:
>> > # HG changeset patch
>> > # User Azhagu Selvan SP <tamizhgeek at gmail.com>
>> > # Date 1286531511 -19800
>> > # Node ID 42ecd7f2277a805cd8c1429ceaaf12071b8a1fd8
>> > # Parent  64db820c66a29ee3b57e452d77be00ed5be675ef
>> > Display a oneline description while initialising a repo with hg init
>> 
>> Thanks, but I'd rather not. Mercurial is intentionally not chatty.
>
> but it does show what it's doing during almost all other operations.
> Only during init it remains silent!

It does not give any output for commands that are fast and complete
succesfully -- such as 'hg add', 'hg remove', 'hg revert', and many
other commands.

This follows a long tradition on Unix where programs only give output
when things fail.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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