Usage discussion from the GNU Emacs project.

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 06:38:31AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Óscar Fuentes, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> While cloning, the progress bar is worse than useless. It gives no
> clue about how much remains to be done, so after 15 minutes of
> looking at it it turns from boring to annoying. Actually, it
> exacerbates the impression of bazaar's slowness.

It's nicer now that it actually tells you about network traffic totals
and rate (though I still wish it hung around afterward), but that IS
rather low-level for grokking how fast it's going in 'real' terms, or
how far it is.  I've mentioned a time or two how nice I find mtn's
output...   for an initial clone, frex:

[...]
mtn: bytes in | bytes out |  certs in | revs in
mtn:    2.3 M |       696 | 1262/1262 | 335/335
mtn: successful exchange with SERVER

The byte/cert/rev counters all run themselves up during the sync
process.  It doesn't show rates, but you can watch the numbers go by
and get a feel for how fast it's going and how far it has left to go.


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