random thought of the day - a progress bar for tree transforms ?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
| Aaron,
| 	you may have done this already, but what do you think of the idea of
| tree transform operations accepting a progress bar?

Yeah, we could do that.  Off the top of my head, there are four phases:
1. transform creation (calculating the build, revert or merge operation)
2. resolution of filesystem conflicts (this may run 1 to 10 times)
3. application of removals (renames, deletions, unversioning)
4. application of insertions (renames, creations, versioning)

I suspect that your average transform spends most of its time in 2.

Aaron
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