Install, uninstall and purge narrated what the platform was doing and hid what it
was running. Every spawn captured stdout and stderr, held them, and surfaced the
last 600 characters only if the exit code was non-zero.
That is enough to explain a crash and useless for the two things people want while
watching an install: knowing a slow step is still moving, and seeing the warning a
command prints on its way to exiting 0. The second is not hypothetical — `db:push`
reported success on a machine where it created no tables. Its output was captured,
discarded because the exit code was fine, and the failure surfaced minutes later as
42P01 in a sidecar log. Whatever drizzle said about that push, nobody ever read it.
`runLogged` streams both pipes as they arrive, so they interleave the way they do
in a terminal. Following only stdout would have been silent for exactly the
commands worth watching: git writes everything to stderr, drizzle-kit writes
progress there and results to stdout.
Two pieces of noise control, because a log nobody can read is not an improvement:
`git clone` gets `--progress` instead of `--quiet` (git says nothing when it thinks
it has no terminal, and that is the step where a slow link looks like a hang) with
per-percent rewrites collapsed to the last fragment per chunk; and drizzle's
spinner, which is eight lines saying the same thing with a different braille glyph,
collapses to the first — otherwise "Changes applied" scrolls past underneath it.
Steps and output share ONE ordered list rather than two. Their order relative to
each other is the whole information: "which step was this output from" is the only
question the log exists to answer. Output renders dimmer and indented under the
step that produced it.
Verified by running a real purge and reinstall: the clone's object counts, the
barrel generation naming both plugins, drizzle's push, then "schema: applied in
2029ms (1 table verified)".
tsgo clean, frontend builds, 873 pass / 7 fail unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5
c98b5643aa