From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] nicer eye candies for pack-objects Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:19:04 +0100 Message-ID: <43FCF168.1060802@op5.se> References: <7vy803kp1n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 23 00:19:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FC3GJ-0003R3-BY for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:19:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030341AbWBVXTI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:19:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030346AbWBVXTI (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:19:08 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:19433 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030341AbWBVXTG (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:19:06 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (1-2-9-7a.gkp.gbg.bostream.se [82.182.116.44]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8296BCBE; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:19:05 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Nicolas Pitre In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > >>I like this, but like the "every second or every percent >>whichever comes first" unpack-objects does even better. How >>about something like this on top of your patch? > > > Well... my concern is (if I'm right) that this status is generated > remotely and sent over the network when performing a fetch. The "every > percent" might in this case generate quite some significant overhead if > the pack is small. > But if the pack is small it won't matter. It's when it's big we want to know about it (and then the each-percent method is better, really). > Also (personal opinion) such progress numbers are harder to read when > they change too fast. > I don't know about the rest of the world, but when I see numbers counting up with a percent-sign behind them I do some mental math to see how many brain-ticks go between each increment and then multiply with 100 to see if I need to get a beer while waiting. I don't really care what number it shows if it flashes too fast to read. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231