On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:38:42AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

The following patches in this series want to handle the progress bar's
title and changing parts (i.e. the counter and the optional percentage
and throughput combined) differently.

To prepare for those changes assemble the changing parts in a separate
strbuf before printing.

Makes sense. Unlike the previous patch, we're already in the "slow path"
of the function here, so we don't need to worry about adding an extra
buffer (though do still think it's worth reusing the same buffer each
time, as you do here).

-Peff