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Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 19, 2007, 03:07 UTC
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<20071019030749.GA9274@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:01:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >   - When fetching, one progress meter says "Indexing" which, while
> >     technically true, is almost certainly blocking on "Downloading". In
> 
> I have some WIP for that.
Great, I won't start work on it, then.
Show 5 quoted lines
> Maybe the "Removing unused objects" should use the common progress 
> infrastructure?  It could even use the delayed interface, just like when 
> checking out files, so no progress at all is displayed when that 
> operation completes within a certain delay.  And the removal of unused 
> objects is usually quick.

Are you volunteering (I think you know the progress code best)? Otherwise, I will get to it, but probably not tonight.

> But I like the statistics.  They might be pretty handy to diagnoze 
> performance issues on remote servers for example.

They are by far the most useful of the three lines I mentioned, but I just wonder if they are a bit meaningless and cluttery for light users. We can always cut the others and see how it looks.

-Peff
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Message 14 of 38 in “Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'”
  1. Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'Shawn O. Pearce, Oct 19, 2007
  2. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  3. Sam VilainOct 19, 2007
  4. David SymondsOct 19, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  6. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  7. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  8. Sam VilainOct 19, 2007
  9. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  10. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  11. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  12. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  13. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  14. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  15. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  16. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  17. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  18. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  19. Linus TorvaldsOct 19, 2007
  20. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  21. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  22. Linus TorvaldsOct 19, 2007
  23. Linus TorvaldsOct 19, 2007
  24. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  25. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  26. Stop displaying "Pack pack-$ID created." during git-gcShawn O. Pearce, Oct 19, 2007
  27. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  28. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  29. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  30. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  31. Shawn O. PearceOct 19, 2007
  32. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  33. Wincent ColaiutaOct 19, 2007
  34. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  35. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  36. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007
  37. Jeff KingOct 19, 2007
  38. Nicolas PitreOct 19, 2007

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