Linus Torvalds writes:

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> However, that crazy green bar chasing back-and-forth int he "reading" 
> phase is really quite visually distracting. Maybe it looks better in 
> Tk8.5, but it does look pretty annoying in the version I have. Can you 
> tone that down a bit? 

Yeah.  Actually what I'd like is to know how many commits git log is
going to give me, so that I can do a normal progress bar whose length
is proportional to commits_read / total_commits.  With --topo-order
(or --date-order) it has to get to the last commit before it outputs
the first commit, doesn't it?  So could it print the total number of
commits on a line by itself at the start of its output?  (Presumably
it would need a --commit-count flag to enable that behaviour.)

Other than that, I could slow the progress bar down, or do a bar of
moving diagonal stripes, or something.

Paul.
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