Re: [PATCH] nicer eye candies for pack-objects

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, 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.

Well, my thinking behind the original unpack-objects behaviour was that we 
don't really care about the max 100 extra packets. 

The days of 150 baud line printers are gone. I cannot imagine any valid 
situation where you can't send a hundred small packets to update the 
screen.. And it did make a nice visual difference.

(In fact, over a network, if the line really is slow, you'll find that 
Nagle will fix things, and you'll just see one extra - but obviously 
slightly bigger - packet).

		Linus