Run git fetch with --quiet by default

[oowekyala]

The log output would be cleaner if the clone/fetch command used the --quiet option. This way, the download progress would not be output in logs:

 remote: Counting objects:   0% (1/459)        
 remote: Counting objects:   1% (5/459)        
 remote: Counting objects:   2% (10/459)        
 remote: Counting objects:   3% (14/459)        
 remote: Counting objects:   4% (19/459)        
 remote: Counting objects:   5% (23/459)        
 remote: Counting objects:   6% (28/459)        

Currently this prints one line per 1 or 2 % progress, for each of remote: Counting objects, remote: Compressing objects, Receiving objects, and Resolving deltas. This is as much as 400 lines of useless logs, maybe more for very big repos.

[oowekyala]

Found #18...

[swharden]

This is as much as 400 lines of useless logs, maybe more for very big repos

I find this jarring to the viewer (the text scrolls faster than it can be read). It is also a waste of bandwidth. It's not that much bandwidth individually, but at scale the waste must be impressive.

Has a way been implemented/documented for disabling this noisy output?

[Allon-Guralnek]

@oowekyala I don't think this should be closed because #18 was closed as "resolved" due to them adding log grouping/collapsing to the UI. But the fact is, it doesn't solve the huge amount of logs this needlessly generates. So I think there should be some open issue about this so it's addressed.

[oowekyala]

@Allon-Guralnek I think you're right, but I think it would be more appropriate for the original ticket to be reopened

[simonbaird]

FYI there's a PR for this at #1067.