Estimating NNN/MMM

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 10/19/2010 2:41 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> When bzr 2.2.1 performs an update in a branch bound to a remote
> repository, most of the time it takes it shows a message like this:
> 
>  nnnnK mmmK/s  Inserting stream:Estimating NNN/MMM
> 
> What is it "estimating"? what is the MMM number.  It isn't the number
> of revisions that is being pulled, because it is much larger than the
> difference between the previous revno and the new one.
> 
> I'm asking because if I need to stare at this line for several tens of
> seconds, I'd prefer to know what it tells me.  You know, the
> psychological thing... ;-)
> 
> TIA
> 
> 

It is approximating the number of 'records'. So Revisions + Inventories
+ CHK pages + File content.

John
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