How does TERM=dumb support work?

[Augie Fackler]

On Sep 23, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I compare the progress bar functionality of a clone
> operation in hg and git running this in 9term (plan9[port])
> only hg manages to do something acceptable. I searched
> the archives and found patches for S390 which look like
> the motivation for this.
> 
> I want to bring this up on the git mailing list but would like
> to know beforehand what and how hg does manage to support
> TERM=dumb without degrading too much. Knowing how
> hg does it is useful to suggest or implement changes to git.

What's the behavior you're seeing that's special around TERM=dumb? I'm unaware of anything other than disabling color, and grep isn't helping me out.

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