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    sideband.c: do not use ANSI control sequence on non-terminal · 38de156a
    Michael Naumov authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    
    
    Diagnostic messages received on the sideband #2 from the server side
    are sent to the standard error with ANSI terminal control sequence
    "\033[K" that erases to the end of line appended at the end of each
    line.
    
    However, some programs (e.g. GitExtensions for Windows) read and
    interpret and/or show the message without understanding the terminal
    control sequences, resulting them to be shown to their end users.
    To help these programs, squelch the control sequence when the
    standard error stream is not being sent to a tty.
    
    NOTE: I considered to cover the case that a pager has already been
    started. But decided that is probably not worth worrying about here,
    though, as we shouldn't be using a pager for commands that do network
    communications (and if we do, omitting the magic line-clearing signal
    is probably a sane thing to do).
    
    Thanks-to: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
    Thanks-to: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Naumov <mnaoumov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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