Re: [Patch] Prevent cloning over http from spewing

[Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Thanks, I took a look at starting on a progress meter yesterday, but I
> do think it makes sense to integrate with the work you are doing.
>
> I tried your http-progress-indicators branch. A few comments:
>
>  1. You still end up with a lot of lines of output. Some of those are
>     "Getting pack $x" which we can probably get rid of in non-verbose
>     mode. But we still get a different progress indicator line for each
>     fetched item, which can add up to quite a lot. I was thinking of
>     something like
>
>        Fetching %s (got %d packs, %d loose): (%d/%d)
>
>     with the substitutions:
>
>       %s = "pack", "index", or "loose object"
>       %d packs, %d loose = a running count of how much we've gotten
>       %d/%d = current and total byte counts for what we are getting now
>
>     and then you could keep everything on a single line. I don't think
>     is possible with the current progress code (it doesn't let you
>     restart the counter), but it should be easy with some tweaking.

Hmm, just wondering, is this is the intended display for "-q" or "-v"?
Or should I do isatty(), like builtin-pack-objects.c does for the
"Writing objects" progress indicator?

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan