Re: [Patch] Prevent cloning over http from spewing

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Junio C Hamano napisał:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Finally a question: if we turn off verbose output, do we have any kind
> > of progress info for git-clone over http?
[...]

> You _could_ do something like this patch.  Instead of showing "walk %s"
> and "got %s" lines, with occasional "Getting pack %s\n which contains %s",
> it shows and recycles a single line that shows the number of packs, walk
> actions and got actions.
> 
> This is a toy patch; it hiccups for too long while getting each pack, and
> it does not cleanly restore the display after it finishes, but I'll leave
> it to interested readers as an exercise to properly do this using the
> progress API.

I know it is toy patch only, but I wonder if we would want to output
current format output (walk/got chains) for '--verbose' option...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland