<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, John Arbash Meinel <<a href="mailto:john@arbash-meinel.com">john@arbash-meinel.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> 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 > > </div></div>It is approximating the number of 'records'. So Revisions + Inventories + CHK pages + File content. John =:-> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a> iEYEARECAAYFAky9okIACgkQJdeBCYSNAAPYiwCeKLHHLLeP/jVr5KV5aVxddvXm ysAAn1Pih429efVwT7yqOWFqMsu0oPo7 =jnT3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div> So when I see something like Estimate M/N where M grows to equal and then exceed N, sometimes by more than a 2:1 margin, does that mean that the initial estimate was not especially good? Thanks ~M