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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, rctay89@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: fix progress-regression
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 07:46:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA8B34A.2050204@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtxzr4vua.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 5/7/2012 21:47, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> In real life, most of the checkout is fairly quick for even projects like
> the kernel, and the logic is an attempt to avoid cluttering the terminal
> with progress unless it takes unusually long and might make the user feel
> worried.

What is "unusually long"? On Windows, it can take its time to switch a
branch even if only a few dozen files are affected, the disk cache is
cold, and an on-access virus scanner is active. :-)

I appreciate the checkout progress indicator as eye candy every once in a
while.

-- Hannes

      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-08  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 19:23 [PATCH] clone: fix progress-regression Erik Faye-Lund
2012-05-07 19:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-08  5:46   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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