On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 01:15:57PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2017, Jeff King wrote: > > > I'm generally in favor of progress meters, though it does seem a little > > funny to me that we'd need one on format-patch. > > When working with huge repositories with a large number of branches, it is > all too easy to pick the wrong branch to rebase to. In that case, it can > take a long time for the `git rebase` call to even generate the mbox. > > Kevin's patch is a visual indication when this is happening.
Right, sorry if it wasn't clear from the rest of my message. My statement was one of surprise, not objection. I understand his use case. -Peff
