On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 06 2018, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy jotted: >> >>> We only show progress when there are new objects to be packed. But >>> when --keep-pack is specified on the base pack, we will exclude most >>> of objects. This makes 'pack-objects' stay silent for a long time >>> while the counting phase is going. >>> >>> Let's show some progress whenever we visit an object instead. The >>> number of packed objects will be shown after if it's not the same as >>> the number of visited objects. >>> >>> Since the meaning of this number has changed, use another word instead >>> of "Counting" to hint about the change. >> >> Can you elaborate on how the meaning has changed? With/without this on >> linux.git I get: >> >> With: >> >> Enumerating objects: 5901144, done. >> Getting object details: 100% (5901145/5901145), done. >> Delta compression using up to 8 threads. >> >> Without: >> >> Counting objects: 5901145, done. >> Delta compression using up to 8 threads. >> >> So now we're seemingly off-by-one but otherwise doing the same thing? > > Yep, it's an off-by-one bug. > >> As for as user feedback goes we might as well have said "Reticulating >> splines", but I have some bias towards keeping the current "Counting >> objects..." phrasing. We ourselves have other docs referring to it that >> aren't changed by this patch, and there's >> e.g. https://githubengineering.com/counting-objects/ and lots of other >> 3rd party docs that refer to this. > > This is why I changed the phrase. The counting is now a bit different. > Documents describing this exact phrase won't apply to the new version. > > The old way counts objects that will be packed. The new way simply > counts objects that are visited. When you keep some packs, the number > of objects you visit but not pack could be very high, while in normal > case the two numbers should be the same (e.g. you pack everything you > visit). I would prefer to print both values (e.g. "counting objects: > <packed>/<visited>") but it's not possible with the current progress > code.
On second thought, maybe instead of introducing a new line "getting object details" i could just rename that line to "counting objects"? They are exactly the same, except that in the new version, this "counting objects" line could run a lot faster than the old line. -- Duy
