[MERGE] no-flicker progress bars

[Michael Ellerman]

On 6/21/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Here's a patch for progress bars that hides progress indicators until at
> least 1 second has passed.  This eliminates the flicker we've been
> seeing with that 'reading knit index' message, but works pretty well
> with longer operations like "merge", too.

On a related note, I think the progress phase stuff is a little
confusing. Because of the way the numbering is done, we often have the
progress bar sitting there saying "phase 0/x", which I think some
people might take to mean "nothing's happening yet". I think it'd be
better if it said "phase 1/x".

cheers