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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Feb 23 10:19:43 2006
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