Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:01:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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Maybe the "Removing unused objects" should use the common progress 
infrastructure?  It could even use the delayed interface, just like when 
checking out files, so no progress at all is displayed when that 
operation completes within a certain delay.  And the removal of unused 
objects is usually quick.

Are you volunteering (I think you know the progress code best)?
Otherwise, I will get to it, but probably not tonight.

If I do it that won't be today either.

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But I like the statistics.  They might be pretty handy to diagnoze 
performance issues on remote servers for example.

They are by far the most useful of the three lines I mentioned, but I
just wonder if they are a bit meaningless and cluttery for light users.
We can always cut the others and see how it looks.

Frankly, I think effort should be spent on the refs update display at 
this point.  Something that looks like:

* refs/heads/origin: fast forward to branch 'master' of git://gi
t.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
  old..new: 66ffb04..4fa4d23

[ note that I arbitrarily cut the long line before the 80th column to 
  show the effect within an email ]

You usually get long lines that gets wrapped, so that means 3 lines of 
screen space for one updated branches.  Is the "66ffb04..4fa4d23" 
information really useful?  Might someone ever care?


Nicolas