From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:59:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Show total transferred as part of throughput progress
Message-ID: <20071102045950.GZ14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1193950797-29631-4-git-send-email-nico@cam.org>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> Right now it is infeasible to offer to the user a reasonable concept
> of when a clone will be complete as we aren't able to come up with
> the final pack size until after we have actually transferred the
> entire thing to the client.  However in many cases users can work
> with a rough rule-of-thumb; for example it is somewhat well known
> that git.git is about 16 MiB today and that linux-2.6.git is over
> 120 MiB.
...
> [from an initial proposal from Shawn O. Pearce]

Thanks for rewriting this.  I agree, your replacement patch is
much better looking than my proposal.  I also see Junio has already
applied it to next.  Excellent.
 
-- 
Shawn.