From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:28:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support for setitimer() on platforms lacking it Message-ID: <7vwr09abim.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <002801cd8ac2$10937480$31ba5d80$@schmitz-digital.de> "Joachim Schmitz" writes: >> Only with the observation of "clone", I cannot tell if your timer is >> working. You can try repacking the test repository you created by >> your earlier "git clone" with "git repack -a -d -f" and see what >> happens. > > It does update the counter too. Yeah, that was not a very good way to diagnose it. You see the progress from pack-objects (which is the underlying machinery "git repack" uses) only because it knows how many objects it is going to pack, and it updates the progress meter for every per-cent progress it makes, without any help from the timer interrupt.