Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support for setitimer() on platforms lacking it

"Joachim Schmitz" [off-list ref] writes:

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Only with the observation of "clone", I cannot tell if your timer is
working.  You can try repacking the test repository you created by
your earlier "git clone" with "git repack -a -d -f" and see what
happens.

It does update the counter too.

Yeah, that was not a very good way to diagnose it.

You see the progress from pack-objects (which is the underlying
machinery "git repack" uses) only because it knows how many objects
it is going to pack, and it updates the progress meter for every
per-cent progress it makes, without any help from the timer
interrupt.