Disable progress on non-capable terminals#7248
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FWIW personally I don't agree with removing the progress entirely. There was proposal for --progress and --ansi to replace --no-progress and --no-ansi, and that will make --progress not do anything when you explicitly ask for getting progress. I do agree with disabling it by default for the reasons listed above. |
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Sure, we can add a way for users to force it in future if needed, I would like to wait for user feedback though to see if it's really needed. Especially when The only user feedback in that area that I saw is to force colors when output is redirected, for which we are tracking a feature request already. |
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On every repo I migrated to MTP, I have always added
--no-progressin CI. This PR makes that a default behavior. When not using a terminal that is capable of writing the progress in place, we don't write progress altogether. IMO, it's never useful to keep writing progress every 3 seconds and always results in a messy output. We will need to also make a similar change to dotnet/sdk.Related to #7056 and other similar issues (not closing any until work is done for dotnet test).