[PATCH draft] progress: Add time remaining for long tasks

[Martin Geisler]

Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 20, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 18:14 +0000, timeless wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes, it's quite aggravating. It has too little description for me
>>>> to form an opinion about it without going to a significant amount
>>>> of work, work which would easily have been saved had the submitter
>>>> used cut and paste.
>>>> 
>>>> SHOW SAMPLE OUTPUT.
>>> 
>>> http://konigsberg.mozilla.org/mpm.progress.log
>> 
>> Any one line of that would have been sufficient. But much like a patch,
>> I want it in the message so we can discuss it.
>> 
>> So, it looks like this:
>> 
>> updating [======================>                       ] 1547/4842 0m13
>> 
>> Seems ok. Can't say I really like the lack of units on the seconds though.
>
> Should I or timeless resend with units on the smaller time unit?

I agree with Matt that there should be a unit on the seconds too, so
yes, please resend -- I love the idea of a an ETA on the progress bars!

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Martin Geisler

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