This was added in
c207e34 (fix push --quiet: add 'quiet'
capability to receive-pack, 2012-01-08) but never
documented.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
and server advertised. As a consequence of these rules, server MUST
NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand.
and server advertised. As a consequence of these rules, server MUST
NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand.
-The 'report-status' and 'delete-refs' capabilities are sent and
+The 'report-status', 'delete-refs', and 'quiet' capabilities are sent and
recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) process.
The 'ofs-delta' and 'side-band-64k' capabilities are sent and recognized
recognized by the receive-pack (push to server) process.
The 'ofs-delta' and 'side-band-64k' capabilities are sent and recognized
value of a reference update. It is not sent back by the client, it
simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values
to delete references.
value of a reference update. It is not sent back by the client, it
simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values
to delete references.
+
+quiet
+-----
+
+If the receive-pack server advertises the 'quiet' capability, it is
+capable of silencing human-readable progress output which otherwise may
+be shown when processing the received pack. A send-pack client should
+respond with the 'quiet' capability to suppress server-side progress
+reporting if the local progress reporting is also being suppressed
+(e.g., via `push -q`, or if stderr does not go to a tty).