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by 1718627440 2 days ago
It's a progress indicator. Everyone has had the concept of percent in school even if they are an artist.
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No, it's mostly nonsense to them.

You know what's a progress indicator? An actual progress indicator. Not some text telling you such and such process is 1234/5678 steps done...followed by yet another line of text telling you that the process is now at step 3 of 20. It could just be a % indicator with a spinning cursor, unless the -v/-verbose flag is present.

Of course artists can learn to understand what all this means; But that is not their job, they have other things to deal with besides the esoteric and overly verbose CLIs we programmers often make.

Do you really think that the `git push` output matters in one way or the other to artists?

I feel like the blocker is understanding how to use git, not the output of `git push`. It just feels like a bad example.