Cloning a big mercurial project

[Brodie Rao]

On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Steve Borho wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Remy HUBSCHER <hubscher.remy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am now using mercurial for the best and also because it is in Python.
>> 
>> One of the thing, I am wishing for a while, is a loading bar for the `hg
>> clone` option.
>> 
>> I am stuck for 2 hours on this message :
>> 
>>   requesting all changes
>>   adding changesets
>>   adding manifests
>>   adding file changes
>> 
>> And I don't even know how long I should still wait or why I am waiting.
>> 
>> My wish is to have a statuts (Something like git could do it)
>> 
>>   requesting all changes
>>   adding changesets [256/256]
>>   adding manifests [502/502]
>>   adding file changes [256/1024]
>> 
>> So I can see that something is happening.
>> This is the minimum but something like this could be even better.
>> 
>>   adding file changes [256/1024]  www/foo/bar.py      2,36Ko/s  eta: 56 mn
> 
> The "plumbing" for a feature like this has been present since hg 1.3,
> but actually hooking it up has not made it to the top of any
> developer's TODO list.

You might be able to report the transfer speed with ui.progress(), but because changeset discovery is done as the pull progresses, I don't think there's any simple way to tell how far along a pull/clone you are as you download.