Comment 9 for bug 320035

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 320035] Re: progress bar is shown regardless of the --quiet option

2009/6/17 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 09:18 +0000, Steve McInerney wrote:
>> Just hit this ourselves.
>>
>> Have an automated/cron:
>> if (bzr st) then bzr ci -q -m "updated"
>>
>> kind of logic/situation.
>
> If you're in a scripting environment you may want to set
> BZR_PROGRESS_BAR=none
>
> as you won't want progress bar output from 'bzr st' *either*.
>
> Martin - I think this is still invalid, because of the above.

In cron, if tty detection is working correctly (see bug 387717) you
should not get any problems, regardless of setting.

If all the other bugs are fixed I'm ambivalent about whether in an
interactive terminal -q should turn off progress bars.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>