From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Be more verbose when checkout takes a long time Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:32:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <7v8x1b1fiu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 23 23:33:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JT2vz-0005ze-Ha for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:33:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753774AbYBWWc4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:32:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753843AbYBWWc4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:32:56 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:38574 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753578AbYBWWcz (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:32:55 -0500 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m1NMWZL4004371 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:32:37 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m1NMWZcC017942; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:32:35 -0800 In-Reply-To: <7v8x1b1fiu.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.09 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 207.189.120.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > So I find it irritating when git thinks for a long time without telling me > > what's taking so long. And by "long time" I definitely mean less than two > > seconds, which is already way too long for me. > > Do you mean more than two or less than two? I mean that "long time" starts at a point that is less than two seconds. Anything over a second is a long time for me. > Geez you are impatient ;-). I like to call it "discerning in my time usage". > The other user of start_progress_delay uses 95% as cutoff. and > probably 50% was too low, but that may just be bikeshedding. I did think that 50% was a bit low, and considered upping it to 75, but with the one-second thing it wasn't as much of a deal any more. > I agree. Perhaps we can add some message when "-m" codepath > falls back to the three-way merge to make "merge-error" less > scary. Perhaps like: Sounds sane to me. Linus