From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:48:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710152245530.19446@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071015232017.GS27899@spearce.org>

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > BTW I have patches here reworking the progress code for a more compact 
> > display which should mitigate this issue quite a bit.
> 
> git-gui is scraping the output of the current progress meter using
> a regex and then building a graphical progress bar from that output.

Erk!

> Any change in how git produces the progress bar should still keep
> it in a form that git-gui can regex match and scrape, preferably
> without needing to know what version of git it is pulling that
> output from.  For example just teach git-gui to try two different
> regexps, new format and if that doesn't match then try the old
> (aka current) format.

I think my new format might be easier for you as the "title" and the 
actual percentage and count is now on the same line.


Nicolas