From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:44:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Message-ID: <B51EC920-D767-4192-AB25-685201B93CC9@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071019034501.GG14735@spearce.org>

El 19/10/2007, a las 5:45, Shawn O. Pearce escribió:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>>
>> And imagine that you see the progress moving slowly because the  
>> remote
>> server is a NSLU2, but it says 80%.  Then you go for a coffee and the
>> progress says 20% when you return because it now has moved to a
>> different phase.  Rather counter intuitive.
>
> Yea, I didn't consider that.  That's where you need to show the
> number of steps and which one you are on, so the meter looks
> more like:
>
> 	Step 1/3: Counting objects: .... \r
> 	Step 2/4: Compressing objects: ... \r
> 	Step 3/3: Writing objects: .... \r
>
> only all smashed into one line of course, so only the most recent
> one is being displayed.

Looks good, although as Nicholas pointed out you might not know in  
advanced how many steps there are.

So I still think that Nicholas' original point is valid is here, and  
if you overwrite old progress bars with new ones then you may falsely  
give the impression of "going backwards".

Cheers,
Wincent