Re: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while generating patches

2017-06-01 Thread Jeff King
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

Re: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while generating patches

2017-06-01 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Peff, 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

Re: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while generating patches

2017-05-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > As I said above, I think I'd prefer it to require "--progress", as > format-patch is quite often used as plumbing. Yes, that sounds sensible. Initially, my reaction was "Why do we even need --progress for format-patch, when it gives one-line per patch output

Re: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while generating patches

2017-05-31 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 08:04:26AM -0700, Kevin Willford wrote: > When generating patches for the rebase command if the user does > not realize the branch they are rebasing onto is thousands of > commits different there is no progress indication after initial > rewinding message. > > This patch

RE: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while generating patches

2017-05-31 Thread Kevin Willford
om>; Kevin > Willford <kewi...@microsoft.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while > generating patches > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Kevin Willford <kcwillf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > When generating patches

Re: [PATCH 1/2] format-patch: have progress option while generating patches

2017-05-31 Thread Stefan Beller
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Kevin Willford wrote: > When generating patches for the rebase command if the user does > not realize the branch they are rebasing onto is thousands of > commits different there is no progress indication after initial > rewinding message. > >