From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:18:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] progress: Fix progress meters when dealing with lots of work
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Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

>   2) Instead of counting pairs of source/dest files compared, just
> count number of dest paths completed.  (Thus, we wouldn't need a value
> big enough to hold rename_dst_nr * rename_src_nr, just big enough to
> hold rename_dst_nr).

This sounds like the most sensible thing to do even if we do switch
to larger integer size, but that is orthogonal to the main point of
this series.