Hi,

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

quoted text
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > > BTW I have patches here reworking the progress code for a more compact 
> > > display which should mitigate this issue quite a bit.
> > 
> > git-gui is scraping the output of the current progress meter using
> > a regex and then building a graphical progress bar from that output.
> 
> Erk!
> 
> > Any change in how git produces the progress bar should still keep
> > it in a form that git-gui can regex match and scrape, preferably
> > without needing to know what version of git it is pulling that
> > output from.  For example just teach git-gui to try two different
> > regexps, new format and if that doesn't match then try the old
> > (aka current) format.
> 
> I think my new format might be easier for you as the "title" and the 
> actual percentage and count is now on the same line.

That might have been an advantage if Shawn did not do the code already.  
As it is, he'll have to maintain two different regexes, _and_ detect when 
to use which.

Ciao,
Dscho

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