Todd Lipcon has posted comments on this change. Change subject: [tools]: Keep the verbosity of CLI at FATAL and above ......................................................................
Patch Set 1: (1 comment) http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/4447/1/src/kudu/tools/tool_main.cc File src/kudu/tools/tool_main.cc: PS1, Line 215: // Set the verbosity of the commands to WARNING(2) and above. : // If the user had explicitly specified verbosity, then user's : // verbosity level is honored. Since '--v' depends on minloglevel : // specifying either of them on CLI will override this setting. : if (google::GetCommandLineFlagInfoOrDie("minloglevel").is_default && : google::GetCommandLineFlagInfoOrDie("v").is_default) { : google::SetCommandLineOption("minloglevel", : SimpleItoa(google::GLOG_WARNING).c_str()); : } > It's difficult to corral INFO (and even WARNING) messages; they can come fr I agree it's a little unusual looking, but given that many of the usages of the tool are for debugging, etc, I think starting with verbosity (and perhaps offering a standard -quiet) is better than the other way around. As an example, if you try to run 'list_tables' against a master which is down right now, your commend just hangs as it generates retries. I would actually prefer it to be _more_ verbose here, saying that it's trying to contact a server and getting Connection Refused. I'd rather have the verbosity there by default and if people want to silence it they can pipe or --quiet -- To view, visit http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/4447 To unsubscribe, visit http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/settings Gerrit-MessageType: comment Gerrit-Change-Id: I882a340d4c1d205e4e998c888f487b7185000e3c Gerrit-PatchSet: 1 Gerrit-Project: kudu Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Owner: Dinesh Bhat <din...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: Adar Dembo <a...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: Alexey Serbin <aser...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: David Ribeiro Alves <dral...@apache.org> Gerrit-Reviewer: Dinesh Bhat <din...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: Kudu Jenkins Gerrit-Reviewer: Todd Lipcon <t...@apache.org> Gerrit-HasComments: Yes