Re: Git reports

> Muzaffer Tolga Ozses wrote:
>
>> I am cloning over http
>
> I am guessing you are using the "dumb" (plain static file transfer)
> HTTP protocol.  With that protocol the server doesn't do anything
> other than shuttle out files, so it doesn't need to do its own
> progress reporting.
>
> Perhaps the client should do some progress reporting based on file
> sizes and amount downloaded so far, but it's hard to get excited
> about given the existence of "smart" (transfer only what is needed)
> HTTP protocol.  See git-http-backend(1) for details.
>
> Perhaps we can document this better?  (If so, where would it have been
> useful to learn about this, and do you have ideas for how it could be
> worded?  I'm thinking it might make sense to put a note on this in a
> new giturls(7) page with content that used to be in the git-clone(1)
> 'GIT URLS' section.)  Or if someone wants to work on a progress
> display, that would be nice, too. ;-)