Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 15, 2007, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20071015232017.GS27899@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710141542020.19446@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

> BTW I have patches here reworking the progress code for a more compact 
> display which should mitigate this issue quite a bit.

git-gui is scraping the output of the current progress meter using a regex and then building a graphical progress bar from that output.

Any change in how git produces the progress bar should still keep it in a form that git-gui can regex match and scrape, preferably without needing to know what version of git it is pulling that output from. For example just teach git-gui to try two different regexps, new format and if that doesn't match then try the old (aka current) format.

-- 
Shawn.

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