Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-fetch: mega-terse fetch output

> On 19/10/2007, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > This makes the fetch output much more terse. It is likely to
> > be very controversial. Here's an example of the new output:
> >
> > Indexing objects: 100% (1061/1061), done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (638/638), done.
> 
> Those two lines are actually my beef with the fetch output. As a newbie, I had
> no idea what "Indexing objects" actually meant. We have this thing called "the
> index" in git so I would expect "Indexing objects" to have something to do
> with that, but it doesn't seem to.
> 
> How about something more descriptive of the high-level operation that's going
> on, along the lines of:
> 
> Gathering changes from remote: 100% (1061/1061), done.
> Applying changes locally: 100% (638/638), done.