From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:41:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Message-ID: <20071019034124.GA11095@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710182328580.19446@xanadu.home>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:38:59PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> > Yup.  Your patches were a big improvement.  But I'm now sitting here
> > wondering if we shouldn't just allow a progress meter to overwrite
> > the prior one.  Then you only see the current task and progress,
> > or the final output if we have nothing further to say about that.
> 
> And then you've lost some diagnostic clue (the absolute numbers) about 
> the actual number of objects that were listed for "deltification" for 
> example.
> 
> And imagine that you see the progress moving slowly because the remote 
> server is a NSLU2, but it says 80%.  Then you go for a coffee and the 
> progress says 20% when you return because it now has moved to a 
> different phase.  Rather counter intuitive.

Obligatory me too: I totally agree with Nicolas here.

-Peff