From: Paul Mackerras Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:11:34 GMT Subject: Re: New features in gitk Message-ID: <18212.13862.637991.30536@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > However, that crazy green bar chasing back-and-forth int he "reading" > phase is really quite visually distracting. Maybe it looks better in > Tk8.5, but it does look pretty annoying in the version I have. Can you > tone that down a bit? Yeah. Actually what I'd like is to know how many commits git log is going to give me, so that I can do a normal progress bar whose length is proportional to commits_read / total_commits. With --topo-order (or --date-order) it has to get to the last commit before it outputs the first commit, doesn't it? So could it print the total number of commits on a line by itself at the start of its output? (Presumably it would need a --commit-count flag to enable that behaviour.) Other than that, I could slow the progress bar down, or do a bar of moving diagonal stripes, or something. Paul.