From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:15:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while generating patches Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170531220100.t27w3w642sn33h7s@sigill.intra.peff.net> Hi Peff, On Wed, 31 May 2017, Jeff King wrote: > I'm generally in favor of progress meters, though it does seem a little > funny to me that we'd need one on format-patch. When working with huge repositories with a large number of branches, it is all too easy to pick the wrong branch to rebase to. In that case, it can take a long time for the `git rebase` call to even generate the mbox. Kevin's patch is a visual indication when this is happening. Instead of being puzzled by `git rebase` "hanging", the user will now see that (.../21957) patch is generated and will have a chance to say "wait a minute, *that* many patches? I think I meant a different branch". And since format-patch generates the patches for `git rebase` (actually, it generates an mbox that then has to be split again, but you get the gist), it is format-patch that needs to output the progress. Ciao, dscho