On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 07:03:13PM +0000, Albert Cui via GitGitGadget wrote:

From: Albert Cui <redacted>

Git appears to hang when downloading packfiles as this part of the
fetch is silent, causing user confusion. This change implements
progress for the number of packfiles downloaded; a progress display
for bytes would involve deeper changes at the http-fetch layer
instead of fetch-pack, the caller.

I think this is an improvement, but I agree that a real byte display
would be much better. I actually worked on this a long time ago for a
very similar feature that we never quite pushed over the finish line.
See patches 11 and 12 here:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20111110074330.GA27925@sigill.intra.peff.net/ (local)

(it might need some of the earlier refactoring, too, I'm not sure; and
quite likely will need forward-porting as it has been 10 years).

-Peff