Re: [PATCH] git blame --progress

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 29, 2007, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6td7iv2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070129181207.GA29451@moooo.ath.cx>

Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> With  --progress option, the command shows a fairly useless but
>> amusing eye-candy while making the user wait.
>
> Looks nice :)  It makes it much more comfortable to wait for the real
> output.  Perhaps there should be a config option to enable the
> eye-candy when git-blame is run on a terminal (e.g. (configoption &&
> stdout is a tty && stderr is a tty) || --progress)?  Typing --progress
> is annoying.
>
> I also noticed that git-blame with --progress is slowed down a bit by
> the terminal here; the output on stderr was ~400kb.

Easy, that was not a serious patch meant for inclusion.

If somebody wants to polish it up and re-submit that is fine by me. It might be interesting to add colors, make it less dependent on ANSI terminal control, and handle half-dots more intelligently.