[RFC] Progress for operations that add data to the repository.

[Martin Pool]

On 8/19/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> I just had an idea today; how about we show progress for operations that
> add data to the repository in terms of data written? Seems to me that
> most users will have a reasonably accurate intuitive idea of how much
> data needs to be written for a given change.
>
> And this is easy to get from packs, and with a little work can probably
> be made to work with knits etc.
>
> So we could show:
>
> committing:  1M written in 2 seconds (500K/sec)
>
> for bound branches, or when auto pack kicks in we can add that:
> committing: Pushing 300K to master branch, 200K written in 1 second
> (200K/sec)

That would be good, and also for push/pull/fetch.  We can also improve
our progress indicators by relating them to something meaningful to
the user - like the directory name or file name while committting.
There may not be anything so obvious for pack based fetch.

-- 
Martin