Re: [PATCH] git blame --progress

Matthias Lederhofer [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

With  --progress option, the command shows a fairly useless but
amusing eye-candy while making the user wait.

Looks nice :)  It makes it much more comfortable to wait for the real
output.  Perhaps there should be a config option to enable the
eye-candy when git-blame is run on a terminal (e.g. (configoption &&
stdout is a tty && stderr is a tty) || --progress)?  Typing --progress
is annoying.

I also noticed that git-blame with --progress is slowed down a bit by
the terminal here; the output on stderr was ~400kb.

Easy, that was not a serious patch meant for inclusion.

If somebody wants to polish it up and re-submit that is fine by
me.  It might be interesting to add colors, make it less
dependent on ANSI terminal control, and handle half-dots more
intelligently.