Python: os.system("git clone") does not shows any output from command

[native-api]

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.txt---progress

Travis output not a TTY on Windows builders

Checking this locally in Git Bash gives the same result: MINGW64 ~ $ python -c 'import sys,os; print os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno())' False So this is Git Bash’s (or rather, the underlying MinGW64’s) problem. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40912072/git-for-windows-mintty-sys-stdout-isatty-returns-false suggests that this can be worked around by running the command via winpty: MINGW64 ~ $ winpty python -c 'import sys,os; print os.isatty(sys.stdout.fileno())' True