From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:07:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Message-ID: <20071019030749.GA9274@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710182251110.19446@xanadu.home>

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.

> 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