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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] clone: inform the user we are checking out
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 11:26:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA7952C.90702@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336381787-6484-1-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com>

Am 5/7/2012 11:09, schrieb Erik Faye-Lund:
> When cloning a large repository over a local file-system
...
> $ git clone some-repo.git some-other-repo
> Cloning into 'some-other-repo'...    <happens instantly>
> done.                                <hangs for minutes>
> $
...
> I asked git
> to clone, and it told me it finished, only to hang around for
> several minutes while, judging by the output, doing nothing.

We have a nice "Checking out files" progress indicator. I wonder why you
do not see it.

At any rate, it's better to write "done" only after we're really done.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07  9:09 [PATCH/RFC] clone: inform the user we are checking out Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-07  9:26 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-05-07  9:35   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-07  9:46     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-07 10:02       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-07 13:54         ` Jeff King
2012-05-07 19:03         ` Junio C Hamano

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