Re: [PATCH] common progress display support

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

Instead of having this code duplicated in multiple places, let's have
a common interface for progress display.  If someday someone wishes to
display a cheezy progress bar instead then only one file will have to
be changed.

Note: I left merge-recursive.c out since it has a strange notion of
progress as it apparently increase the expected total number as it goes.
Someone with more intimate knowledge of what that is supposed to mean
might look at converting it to the common progress interface.

That disaster in merge-recursive.c is my fault.  The progress
meter there doesn't mean much of anything.  Even on my slow as
dirt Windows system I see the progress meter jump to the end as
soon as we discover the number of files we have to chug though.
So its always at 99%.

About the only value it has is saying "Oh; I just found out there
are 6,000 files deleted/renamed between the two branches, and I
finished processing them.  Oh; I just found out that was just
an inner recursive merge, now there are actually 12,000 files
deleted/renamed when you add in the final merge.  OK, I'm done."

I've been thinking about getting rid of it.

-- 
Shawn.