From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:36:10 GMT
Subject: Re: New features in gitk
Message-ID: <5209A0B4-520E-4EC2-9901-C83C34652313@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <18212.13862.637991.30536@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>


On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
>> However, that crazy green bar chasing back-and-forth int he "reading"
>> phase is really quite visually distracting. Maybe it looks better in
>> Tk8.5, but it does look pretty annoying in the version I have. Can  
>> you
>> tone that down a bit?

I have the same impression.


> Yeah.  Actually what I'd like is to know how many commits git log is
> going to give me, so that I can do a normal progress bar whose length
> is proportional to commits_read / total_commits.

Can you use something like a rotating wheel, if the total size
of the task is unknown.

Or if you know an upper bound on the number of expected commits,
you could use this as total_commits. And adjust the upper
bound if more information becomes available.

Or you just print the number of commits already read and the
user is happy because something is changing.

	Steffen