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doc/todo/config_setting_to_force_--progress_reporting_for_some_git_calls.mdwn

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+Ref: all heated discussions around https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/2844
+
+The main point is -- `git annex init --version=6`, while running  on a crippled system might need some time to accomplish the mission of unlocking a big number of files, which leads to `Checking out` progress update spit out by `git`.  BUT if someone (us) swallows stderr, `git` does not produce any progress output unless that command (checkout, pull, fetch, etc...) provides explicit `--progress` flag.  According to IRC there is no config setting to trigger that behavior in `git`.  Could may be `git annex` get a config setting alike `force-git-progress` which would add `--progress` to any relevant `git` call whenever git is ran without stderr being swallowed by annex?
+
+Thanks in advance for considering
+
+[[!meta author=yoh]]

doc/todo/configuration_option_for_default___34__mode__34___on_crippled_file_systems/comment_1_e3cd8d86869d8a63337f7eff0b91ddbc._comment

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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2018-10-01T15:57:40Z"
+ content="""
+Wouldn't git annex init --version=6 work? If not that is a bug.
+"""]]

doc/todo/prevent_directly_printing_to_stderr_error_from_an_attempt_to_download_remote___47__config_file.mdwn

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+ATM git-annex init on a new clone would try to sense the remote regarding git-annex support and would try to fetch its /config.  If that fails it would announce that remote ignored for annex.
+
+[[!format sh """
+...
+Switched to branch 'adjusted/master(unlocked)'
+download failed: Not Found
+
+  Remote origin not usable by git-annex; setting annex-ignore
+
+"""]]
+and that download failed, thanks to --debug output comes from
+[[!format sh """
+[2018-09-28 12:52:12.541757374] Request {
+  host                 = "github.com"
+  port                 = 443
+  secure               = True
+  requestHeaders       = [("Range","bytes=0-"),("Accept-Encoding","identity")]
+  path                 = "/psychoinformatics-de/studyforrest-data-structural/config"
+  queryString          = ""
+  method               = "GET"
+  proxy                = Nothing
+  rawBody              = False
+  redirectCount        = 10
+  responseTimeout      = ResponseTimeoutDefault
+  requestVersion       = HTTP/1.1
+}
+
+download failed: Not Found
+
+  Remote origin not usable by git-annex; setting annex-ignore
+
+"""]]
+
+IMHO that "download failed: " message output should be provided only in `--debug` mode.  Otherwise, if exposed to naive user it is an uninformative alarm, which (if he/she knows) is clarified by the follow up message ("Remote origin not usable ...")
+
+
+[[!meta author=yoh]]
+
+ref: [https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/2881#issue-218977359](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/2881#issue-218977359)