From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 05:46:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: fix progress-regression
Message-ID: <4FA8B34A.2050204@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vtxzr4vua.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 5/7/2012 21:47, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> In real life, most of the checkout is fairly quick for even projects like
> the kernel, and the logic is an attempt to avoid cluttering the terminal
> with progress unless it takes unusually long and might make the user feel
> worried.

What is "unusually long"? On Windows, it can take its time to switch a
branch even if only a few dozen files are affected, the disk cache is
cold, and an on-access virus scanner is active. :-)

I appreciate the checkout progress indicator as eye candy every once in a
while.

-- Hannes